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Making sure of survival

Reflections on the report

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Abstract

Early in 1980—well before the Special Session of the UN General Assembly in New York—the Independent Commission for International Development Issues chaired by Willy Brandt presented its Report: “North-South: A Programme for Survival”. The findings of the Commission which is better known as “North-South Commission” or “Brandt Commission” have met with agreement and approval but also with criticism. Which recommendations has the Commission made? Which points of the Report are being criticised?

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  1. North-South: A Programme for Survival. Report of the Independent Commission on International Development Issues, London and Sydney, 2nd printing, 1980, p. 10.

  2. Ibid., North-South: A Programme for Survival. Report of the Independent Commission on International Development Issues, London and Sydney, 2nd printing, 1980, p. 58/59.

  3. Ibid., North-South: A Programme for Survival. Report of the Independent Commission on International Development Issues, London and Sydney, 2nd printing, 1980, p. 75.

  4. Ibid., North-South: A Programme for Survival. Report of the Independent Commission on International Development Issues, London and Sydney, 2nd printing, 1980, p. 65.

  5. Ibid., North-South: A Programme for Survival. Report of the Independent Commission on International Development Issues, London and Sydney, 2nd printing, 1980, p. 158.

  6. Cf. D. Kebschull et al.: Wirkungen von Privatinvestitionen in Entwicklungsländern (Effects of private investments in developing countries), Wissenschaftliche Schriftenreihe des Bundesministeriums für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit, 35, Baden-Baden 1980.

  7. Cf. D. Kebschull: A Crawling Peg System for Raw Materials, in: INTERECONOMICS, 9/1976, p. 245 ff.

  8. Cf., i. a., E. B. Steinberg and J. A. Yager: New Means of Financing International Needs, Washington, D. C., 1978; H. P. Wiesebach: Mobilization of Development Finance— Promise and Problems of Automacity, Berlin 1979.

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    Karl Wolfgang Menck

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Menck, K.W. Making sure of survival. Intereconomics 15, 127–131 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02924351

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