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Massive transfers of resources

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What lies behind the call for massive transfers of resources from the rich to the poor countries? What proposals for such transfers have been made? Do these proposals represent an application of Keynesianism to the problems of international development and, if so, is this application legitimate?

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  1. “Proposal for a Long-Term Facility for Financing Purchases of Capital Goods by Developing Countries”, put forward by the Mexican Government at the meeting of the Development Committee, Mexico City, April 1978.

  2. This proposal was worked out during the course of 1977 and presented by the President at a press conference after the meeting of OPEC ministers in Caracas in December 1977.

  3. “A Proposal for Stepped-Up Co-Financing for Investment in Developing Countries”, OECD, Paris, May 1979.

  4. “A Proposition for the Global Infrastructure Fund”, presented by Masaki Nakajima, President, Mitsubishi Research Institute, Tokyo, August 1978.

  5. “A New World Development Plan—A Proposal”, by J. Tinbergen, J. M. den Uyl, J. P. Pronk, and W. Kok. Paper prepared for the Lysebu Symposium on “Massive Transfers of Resources—Concepts and Realities”, Oslo, 1–4 March 1981.

  6. “Massive Transfer of Resources: Background and Problems for Further Analytical Work”, Document by Permanent Mission of Sweden to United Nations, 3 May 1978.

  7. see Michael Stewart: A Survey of Some Recent Proposals for International Facilities, Juli 1979, UNDP/UNCTAD Project INT/75/015, UNCTAD, Geneva.

  8. Cf. George C. Abbott: Parkinson's Law and Absorptive Capacity, in: INTERECONOMICS, No. 4, 1981, pp. 171–177.

  9. Cf. George C. Abbott: A Re-Examination of the 1929 Colonial Development Act, in: The Economic History Review, Second Series, Vol. XXIV, No. 1, February 1971, pp. 68–81.

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Abbott, G.C. Massive transfers of resources. Intereconomics 18, 18–27 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02928322

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