Prebisch on Commercial Policy for Less-Developed Countries

1962 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert F. Gemmill
Keyword(s):  
Developed Countries ◽  
Less Developed Countries ◽  
Commercial Policy

The External Relations of Less Developed Countries: A Manual of Economic Policies by Hans Bachman. Frederick A. Praeger, New York, 1968.

1969 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-351
Author(s):  
A. H. M. Nuruddin Chowdhury
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Less Developed Countries ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Private Business ◽  
Commercial Policy ◽  
External Relations ◽  
The Government

There is no dearth of writings on international economic policies as even the limited bibliography appended to this volume will suggest. One is, there¬fore, justified in being somewhat fastidious in appraising yet another entry in this already crowded field. The book attempts to cover the entire domain of commercial policies. This makes the treatment of most of the topics, of necessity, cursory and elementary, since summarizing or synthesizing all the writings in such a broad field is impossible without running into encyclopaedic proportions. Let us, therefore, look at the work from the point of view of those for whom this is primarily meant. In the words of the author, "the manual, in the first place, is destined for ministries of economics, trade and finance in less-developed countries and for the training of all those who will eventually assume responsibilities in the field of commercial policy at all levels in the government, in semi-official and private business organizations, and even in private enterprises engaged in foreign

'Restrictive Business Practices', report by the UNCTAD Secretariat, April 1972.

1973 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-316
Author(s):  
G. M. Radhu
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Less Developed Countries ◽  
International Firms ◽  
The World ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Financial Power ◽  
Administrative Structures

The report by the UNCTAD Secretariat, submitted to the third session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development held in Santiago (Chile) in April 1972, deals with the restrictive business practices of the multinational corporations with special reference to the export interests of the developing countries. Since the world war, there has been a tremendous growth in the size and activities of many international firms. They have grown from the national corporation to the multidivisional corporation and now to the multinational corporation. With each step they acquired greater financial power, better technology and know-how and more complex administrative structures. They have subsidiaries and branches all over the world. In the course of the sixties they became one of the dominant factors in determining the pattern of world trade. At the same time, their increasingly restrictive business practices, which tended to adversely affect world trade and the export interest of less developed countries, attracted the attention of the governments both in developed and less developed countries and serious concern was shown at the international level. It is against this background that the UNCTAD undertook the study on the question of restrictive business practices.

Inverting the Pyramid of Values? Trends in Less-Developed Countries

2009 ◽  
Vol 90 (S3) ◽  
pp. 267-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Virginia Halter ◽  
Maria Cecilia Coutinho de Arruda
Keyword(s):  
Developed Countries ◽  
Less Developed Countries

Transfer of Technology to Nigeria and the Patents and Designs Act 1970

1981 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-93
Author(s):  
S. K. Date-Bah
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Transfer Process ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Patent System ◽  
Less Developed Countries ◽  
Commercial Exploitation ◽  
Know How ◽  
Technology Transfer Process ◽  
Transfer Of Technology

The patent system has been claimed to be one of the ways of facilitating the transfer of technology from the industrialised North to the less developed countries of the South. It is by no means the only way in which this can be done. For one thing, not all technology is patented. Also, quite often before a patented process can be successfully worked there is need for the transfer of unpatented know-how along with the technology covered by the patent. Besides, it is not the patent itself which enables the transfer of the technology; rather, by making the title and exclusive rights of the patentee secure, it emboldens him to transfer his technology to others for commercial exploitation. Nevertheless, the patent is an important factor in the technology transfer process. As one United Nations report has put it:

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