U.N. Conference on Trade and Development, Part 4: The Bias Impeding Third World Growth

Publication Date: June 1985

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Stanley J. Michalak

Research Area: Economics

Keywords: Trade and foreign aid

Type: Report

Abstract:

The ultimate problem with the ideological nature of UNCTAD studies is not that they have always led to anti-Western conclusions. The real tragedy of UNCTAD studies is that they affirm approaches to development that have failed and at great human costs, and they minimize and proscribe approaches that have successfully fostered development in both the developed and developing world. In this sense, UNCTAD studies work against trade and development policies that work.