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For a time in the mid-1970s, “Third World solidarity” was at its zenith and the prospect of a new international economic order appeared to be within reach. But by the Cancun Summit in 1981 the schism between the oil exporting developing countries and the non-oil exporting developing countries had become apparent. What are the determinants of relationships between these two groups of countries? What are the prospects for the second half of the 1980s?
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Hallwood, C.P., Sinclair, S.W. The non-oil developing countries and OPEC: Coalition or conflict?. Intereconomics 19, 290–296 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02928354
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