The seventh United Nations Conference on Trade and Development will be held in Geneva in July 1987. Heinrich Dehn reviews the issues on the agenda and shows where the policies of the industrialised and developing countries need to be revised.

The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has a long history of intellectual independence. This article details how Western countries tried to marginalise the organisation and its work – which is often critical of Western powers – during the 2012 UNCTAD conference. While developing...