Economic problems of developing countries
- New Delhi Sterling Pub. 1988
- 87 p.
These studies focus on problems of economic development of the newly liberated countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Carried out by Soviet scholars and specialists, they cover, among other subjects, problems of international economic security, ways of overcoming economic backwardness and of solving the external debt problem, analysis of the place and role of the developing countries in the world system of economic relations, activities of transnational corporations in the developing world, and the relationship between disarmament and development.
The contributors are members of the staff of major socio-political and socio-economic research establishments of the USSR Academy of Sciences, such as the Institute of Oriental Studies, the Institute of the Far East, the Institute of World Economy and International Relations. Appended to the collection is a document adopted by the Political Consultative Committee of the Warsaw Treaty Organisation, which sums the common views of these states on ways of solving important problems facing the developing countries.