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Shaping EC Development Aid Policy

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Transnational Socialist Networks in the 1970s

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At the beginning of the 1970s, the wealth gap between the developed and the developing countries began to widen. The global increase in poverty and only partially successful development programmes, such as the strategy for the first United Nations (UN) Economic Development Decade (1961–1970), put development issues on the political agenda. The first two United Nations Conferences on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), in 1964 and 1968, added a new dimension to international development aid policy.1 The first television reports of starving children in the so-called Third World and television-led fund-raising campaigns for developing countries strengthened demands for improved development aid, with the churches and left-wing student groups in particular giving a voice to these demands. As Richard T. Griffiths has pointed out, the growing public awareness of the problem of poverty at the beginning of the 1970s mobilised public opinion in the western European countries in favour of more concerted efforts by their governments in the field of development aid policy2 – this at a time when systems of development aid were still largely based on national policy competences and structures and a shared EC approach was only beginning to emerge.

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Salm, C. (2016). Shaping EC Development Aid Policy. In: Transnational Socialist Networks in the 1970s. Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137551207_3

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