Volume 25, Number 17 · November 9, 1978
The Struggle for the Third World
By Geoffrey Barraclough
The Future of the World Economy
by Wassily Leontief
Oxford University Press, for the United Nations, 110 pp., $15.00
The Evolution of the International Economic Order
by W. Arthur Lewis
Princeton University Press, 81 pp., $2.45 (paper)
Rich and Poor Nations in the World Economy
by Albert Fishlow, by Carlos Díaz-Alejandro, by Richard R. Fagen, by Rogert D. Hansen
McGraw-Hill, 288 pp., $6.96 (paper)
If we survey the relations of the rich and poor countries not over the last two to three years but over the last twenty to thirty years, there is no doubt about the magnitude of the changes. That may be a platitude, but it is necessary to say it in order to put the apparent setbacks or stagnation since 1975 into perspective. By seizing the initiative at the first United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in 1964 the developing countries put the Third World on the map, and the rich nations are not going to be allowed to forget its existence.
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