Multinational Corporations and the Changing World Economic Order

Haq Mahbub Ul , The Poverty Curtain; Choices for the Third World (New York: Columbia University Press, 1976), p. 153. ( Haq Dr . is director of policy planning and program review at the World Bank, and a founding member of the Third World Forum.)

Brzezinski Zbigniew , “America in a Hostile World,” Across the Board (February 1977), p. 18. (Originally published in the Summer 1976 issue of Foreign Policy. The author is now President Carter's special assistant for national security affairs.)

“Why U.S. is Target at ‘Third World’ Summit,” U.S. News & World Report (16 August 1976), p. 53.

Berger Peter L. , Pyramids of Sacrifice (New York, Basic Books, 1974), pp. 48–49.

Steade Richard D. , Business and Society in Transition: Issues and Concepts (San Francisco: Canfield Press, 1975), p. 202.

For a summary of the nonaligned meetings in the past 21 years, see “Why U.S. is Target at ‘Third World’ Summit,” op. cit., pp. 53–55.

See, for example, the perceptive discussion of the four worlds in Thorelli Hans B. , “Ideational Items: The World is Twisting Left,” Business Horizons (February 1975), pp. 53–56.

These descriptions are mainly from: “Poor vs. Rich: A New Global Conflict,” Time (22 December 1975), pp. 34–35.

Thorelli , op. cit., p. 55.

Howe James W. (Overseas Development Council), The U.S. and World Development: Agenda for Action 1975 (New York: Published for the ODC by Praeger Publishers, 1975), p. 38. (For a complete listing of Fifth World countries—Howe's “Fourth World”—see Table 1, pp. 48–49.)

“The Third World and its Wants,” Time (8 September 1975), p. 15.

Francis David R. , “Bitter ‘Third World’—Determined to Get its ‘Fair Share’; Pakistani Economist Tells Why,” Christian Science Monitor (5 May 1975), p. 24.

These points are based on: “The Third World and its Wants,” op. cit., p. 16; and Martin Everitt G. Ricklees Roger , “Third World Presses to Stabilize the Prices of its Raw Materials,” Wall Street Journal (3 July 1975), p. 1.

Bowie Robert R. , “U.S. Role in New World Order,” Christian Science Monitor (3 September 1975), p. 31. ( Bowie Dr. is a member of the Harvard Center for International Affairs and of the Harvard faculty.)

“Venezuela: A Study in Third World Strategy,” Business Week (13 October 1975), p. 57.

Moynihan Daniel P. , “The United States in Opposition,” Commentary (March 1975), p. 44.

Two other key agencies or forums are the OECD, for the industrial countries (especially the ministerial-level meetings), and UNCTAD for the developing countries, represented by the “Group of 77.”

Browning Jim , “Third World Raps Compromise,” Christian Science Monitor (1 June 1977), p. 7.

Browning Jim , “Breaking the North-South Economic Impasse,” Christian Science Monitor (31 May 1977), p. 3.

Brzezinski , op. cit., p. 20. Also see Wells Louis T. Jr. , “Negotiating with Third World Governments,” Harvard Business Review (January-February 1977), pp. 72–80.

Andriamirado Sennen , “The Deceit of Tied Aid,” U.N. Development Forum (March 1977), p. 3.