1. On the history of the non-aligned movement, see P. Willets, The Non-Aligned Movement: the Origins of a Third World Alliance (London: Frances Pinter, 1978).
2. More especially in relation to the New International Economic Order, see Odette Jankowitsch and Karl Sauvant, ‘The Evolution of the UN-aligned Movement as a Pressure Group for a New International Economic Order’, a contribution to the 26th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Toronto, February 1976, mimeo, UN Centre on Transnational Enterprises.
3. R. Prebisch, Towards a New Trade Policy for Development, vol. II of Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Geneva: UNCTAD, 1964).
4. A seminal version of this paper had appeared as an ECLA Document in 1950, and was mainly concerned with Latin America: R. Prebisch, The Economic Development of Latin America and its Principal Problems (New York: Economic Commission for Latin America, 1950).
5. For a full discussion of Prebisch’s theory and UNCTAD’s perspective, see A. S. Friedberg, The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development 1964; the Theory of the Peripheral Economy at the Centre of International Political Discussion (Rotterdam University Press, 1969). Prebisch’s thesis was based on the ‘deterioration of the terms of trade argument’. Recent years have seen mounting attacks on this supposition: cf. I. M. D. Little, ‘Economic Relations with the Third World — Old Myths and New Prospects’, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, November 1975, pp. 223–5; and J. Spraos, ‘The Statistical Debate on the Net Barter Terms of Trade between Primary Commodities and Manufactures’, Economic Journal, no. 90, March 1980, pp. 107–27.