World leadership and international development

This book analyses the results of a survey of decision makers from around the world concerning international development. It exposes the attitudes of government, business, trade union and other leaders in seventeen Third World, OECD and CMEA countries to issues such as development objectives, obstacles to development, agents for change and the present state of the global economy, and measures their responses to sixteen specific development proposals.

The results, to a great extent, confirm much of what is already known about the attitudes of the various actors in the North-South dialogue, particularly the strong desire in the South for structural changes in the international system and the equally strong resistance to such adjustment among the most powerful countries and sectors of the market economies of the North. However, the development policy maker who perseveres in spite of these obstacles may find in this report some guidance on general approaches and specific strategies that could keep the development process alive.