An increasing number of voices have recently been claiming that an economic system based more strongly on the market should be introduced in Third World countries for reasons of efficiency. What conditions need to be met in the developing countries for this to be possible? What specific measures...

The developing countries are likely to use UNCTAD III to vent their disappointment at this institution’s failure in the past to find a satisfactory solution for the questions of trade and development policy which are of interest to them. The great expectations of the developing countries have...

The four development plans, under which Iran has gone forward on a continuous course of industrialization since 1949 were followed by a Fifth Development Plan, which came into force in March 1973. This fifth plan had however to be revised recently: the expenditure on investments is to be doubled...