World Economic and Social Survey 1975

Fluctuations and Development in the World Economy

World Economic Survey 1975 takes a closer look at the fluctuations and development in the world economy in the first half of the 1970s. The 1971-1975 period was one of great instability in which short-term problems and emergencies tended to pre-empt the attention of policymakers. The Survey also looks ahead to the second half of the decade and the efforts needed to restore more stable growth and improve the national and international division of labour and distribution.

Supplement to World Economic Survey 1975

The Supplement to World Economic Survey 1975 takes a closer look at the period that followed the adoption of the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade in October 1970. It analyses the ways in which individual countries and groups of countries reacted to the major global changes that shaped the world economy?the business cycle, the food crisis and the radical alteration in the energy situation.

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• WES 1975,
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