Policy-making on North-South Issues : the Importance of Administrative Organisation

House of Commons Select Committee on Overseas Development , First Report from the Select Committee on Overseas Development 1977-78: Trade and Aid (London: HMSO, 1978), Vol. I, paragraphs 11, 12.

The birth of the Ministry for Overseas Development is analysed in more detail in Adrian Hewett , The Influence of Research on Policy: British Policy Towards the Developing Countries (London: Overseas Development Institute, July 1977).

Ministry of Overseas Development, Overseas Development: The Work of the New Ministry (London: HMSO, August 1965), p.5.

For a detailed account of the develoment of UNCTAD as a vehicle for the Third World see Carol Geldart and Peter Lyon , 'The Group of 77: A Perspective View', International Affairs (Vol.57, No.1 Winter 1980-81), pp. 79-101.

Vincent Cable , British Interests and Third World Development (London: Overseas Development Institute, 1980), p.13.

House of Commons Select Committee on Overseas Development , op. cit, paragraph 11.

Richard Jolly and Susan Jokes , 'Editorial: Britain on Brandt', Institute of Development Studies Bulletin (Vol.12, No.2 April 1981), p.3, emphasis in the original.

Council of Ministers , Communication on the North-South Dialogue, COM (80) 68 final (Brussels, 7 May 1981).

An illustration of its importance was that in 1981 the Deputy Director-General in charge of it was promoted to be Gaston Thorn's chef du cabinet - although, undoubtedly, the overriding consideration in his selection was the fact that he is Belgian.

Council of Ministers , Reactivation of the North-South Dialogue, COM (80) 302 final (Brussels, 29 May 1980), p. 4.

Council of Ministers , Communication on the North-South Dialogue, op. cit.