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In early 1964 the first session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was held in Geneva1 signalising the emergence of a view among the developing countries that the time had come for changes in the trade policies of the developed countries. At the three-months-long conference the objectives of these policies and the institutional arrangements which must give expression to them were subjected to severe and continuous criticism by the delegates of developing countries.
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An excellent account of the best thought on trade policy for the developing countries in the late fifties was given by Raul Prébisch in his Towards a New Trade Policy for Development (New York: U.N., 1964), a report which organised for the UNCTAD conference of 1964 the main issues as Prébisch saw them at the time.
A good critique of the Prébisch Report is to be found in H. G. Johnson, Economic Policies Towards Developed Countries (London: Allen & Unwin, 1967) pp. 25–33.
See G. and V. Curzon, ‘The Management of Trade Relations in GATT’, International Economic Relations of the Western World, part 11, vol. 1, ed. Andrew Shonfield (London: Oxford University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1976) p. 150.
See G. Patterson, Discrimination in International Trade: the Policy Issues (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966) p. 174.
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Scammell, W.M. (1980). Confrontation with the Third World. In: The International Economy since 1945. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16399-1_11
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