Cassese: International Law 2e
Chapter 24
Legal Attempts at Narrowing the North-South Gap
The principal demands of the developing countries:
- GA resolutions on the New International Economic Order
[Link to PDF document] - 1974 Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States
[www.dal.ca/~wwwlaw/kindred.intllaw/EcRtsandDuties.htm] - 1986 Declaration on the Right to Development
[www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/74.htm] - the notion of common heritage of mankind: the origine of Malta initiative
[website.lineone.net/~romweb/par_a01.htm]
The role of international economic institutions:
The World Bank group- International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
[web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTABOUTUS/0,,content
MDK:20040558~menuPK:34559~pagePK:34542~piPK:36600,00.html] home page - International Development Association
[web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTABOUTUS/IDA/0,,page
PK:118644~theSitePK:73154,00.html] home page - International Finance Corporation
[www.ifc.org] home page - MIGA
[www.miga.org] home page - ICSID
[www.worldbank.org/icsid] home page
- International Monetary Fund
[www.imf.org] home page
- World Trade Organization
[www.wto.org] home page
- the role of the WTO
[www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/devel_e/devel_e.htm] - within the UN:
- UNDP
[www.undp.org] home page
- UNDP
- UNCTAD
[www.unctad.org/Templates/StartPage.asp?intItemID=2068] home page - UNIDO
[www.unido.org] home page
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