Since the establishment of UNCTAD in 1964 as a permanent organisation for the promotion of the developing countries' trade and development interests, the substantive issues and problems have remained more or less the same. Dr. Ezenwe analyses the reasons why a yawning gap exists between...

Since 1970 the world economy has gone through a series of grave crises which have stimulated an intensive discussion about the economic and political relations between industrialized and developing countries. As seen from the Federal Republic of Germany, the witnessed events have not only an...

Although the EC’s Generalized System of Preferences has been in force since July 1, 1971, vagueness still prevails with regard to the question to what extent the system has contributed to the lowering of tariff barriers and of what service it has thus been as a tool for the promotion of...

The Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea meets in New York from August 21 to September 15, 1978, for the second half of its Seventh Session. At its earlier meetings the Conference had not succeeded in mapping out a new international maritime law. The present article analyses the state of...

Donor agencies invest considerable financial and human resources to evaluate the outcome of their development activities. To derive institutional conditions conducive to an efficient use of these resources, we develop a multi-level principal-agent model focusing on the various interests of the...