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The first two parts deal with Dutch bilateral aid policy and its sectoral implementation. The third part analyses the scope and conditions for co-ordination which the extensive conclusions concentrate upon the problems relative to organizational and priority changes and to the co-ordination at home and elsewhere.

The paper deals with the causes of and the problems connected with the ongoing attempt to achieve the global harmonisation of protection for intellectual property, particularly that for high technology. Following the Introduction, Part 2 critcially reviews the economics of intellectual property. Part 3 and Part 4 examine the actual process of harmonization under way at the global as well at the regional level, respectively. Part 5 presents a series of conclusions.

In exploring the consequences of changes in Eastern Europe for Western Europe, the Third World and the global economic order, this article examines the need for economic management which is more solidly based on the new theory of international trade, and which extends beyond the national level. There is a clear move towards the formation of regional blocs, the intention of which is to strengthen the industrial countries against the uncertainties and risks involved in the current reshaping of the world order by multipolarity, as well as in the growing nationalist tensions and movements for national independence. This is bound to either further maginalize the majority of developing countries, or increase their dependence on the few regional centres that are emerging.

The creation of a Single European Market (SEM) is watched with great apprehension by the Third World because the question of access to this huge market is of great significance to its exporters. The book offers a detailed overview of the problems that the SEM poses to the Third World and in particular, the problems faced by the African, ASEAN and Latin American countries. The analysis of SEM's impact on the Third World is complicated by the effects of the re-entry of Eastern Europe into the world economy and the need to accommodate these countries' products. Restructuring of Eastern Europe could also divert the West's financial flows away from the Third World. Finally, the book highlights the implications for the international trading system of SEM's tendency bo bypass the multilateral organisations.

The same development strategy and economic policy that has made possible the creation in India of a large and variegated industrial structure, appears also responsible for the modest impact of Indian science and technology on its manufactured production. The effects of what has been defined as the "Indian paradox" have extended to its co-operation with Third World, limiting India's ability to penetrate these markets with its manufactures, particulary with the non-traditional ones. Further isolated after the collapse of the former Soviet Union, India needs to review its priorities more fundamentally than the timid economic reform presently being attempted.