Exports of Selected Commodity as % of Total Exports (average 1971-73 value in U.S. $):
2.
See "New directions and new structures for trade and development," Report by the Secretary-General of UNCTAD to the Conference, May 1976, TD/183, pp. 21-32; also Resolution 93 (IV) of the Conference in TD/Res/93 (IV). The problems of the working of any Common Fund are discussed later in this paper.
3.
By " indexing " is meant " measures designed to maintain the purchasing power of the prices received by developing countries for their exports in relation to the cost of the products they import ": Towards a New International Economic Order, a final report by a Commonwealth Experts' Group, Commonwealth Secretariat, March 14, 1977, p. 39.
4.
Commonwealth Experts' Group final report, op. cit. p. 20.
5.
Dankwart A. Rustow and John F.Mugo, OPEC: Success and Prospects (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, New York University Press, 1976), p. 73.
6.
Gamani Corea, " UNCTAD and the New International Economic Order," in International Affairs, April 1977, p. 184.
7.
An analysis of the industrial centrally planned economies is omitted as they have taken little part in the debate.
8.
Annual Report, 1976, International Monetary Fund, p. 52.
9.
Commonwealth Experts' Group final report, op. cit. p. 36.
10.
For details, see Text of Lome Convention, Title III in Lome Dossier, The Courier, No. 31, Special issue, March 1975.
