Publisher's Synopsis
A fair deal for Third World countries in stabilizing commodity prices was one of the main aims of North-South dialogue in the early 1980s. UNCTAD's Integrated Programme for Commodities led the effort to establish a New International Economic Order proposed by the Brandt report. This book is an account of the commodity negotiations by the main architect of the NIEO.;The book offers an account of a complex episode in the development of international economic policy and law. It gives explanations of all the economic issues involved in regulating international markets for commodities and places the negotiations for the Integrated Programme for Commodities in their political and diplomatic context.
