The Changing Character of International Trade and the Problems of Under-Developed Regions

Abstract

The subject of this paper, on which I was invited to speak, has been amply covered in special investigations of the UN Secretariat, FAO and other international and regional bodies, in the works of many economists, and in numerous papers.¹ Finally, it has been com-prehensively discussed at the UN Conference on Trade and Development the proceedings of which offer a wide field for further investigations into the present-day trends in the development of trade. For this reason my task, as I see it, does not consist in attempting to elucidate all the aspects of the problem in hand. It would appear far more expedient to limit my report to brief comments on some problems associated with the trends in the development of world agricultural production.