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Identify some of the major issues challenging the North-South countries.

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  • Evolution of the International Economic System

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North-South relations have run on a remarkably stable agenda since UNCTAD's founding in 1964: trade terms, finance, technology and voice. Stephen D. Krasner, in Structural Conflict (1985), read the contest as one over regimes, the South preferring authoritative allocation by rules and institutions, the North allocation by markets. The issues below are where that conflict…

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  • Trade and market access
  • Finance, debt and aid
  • Technology and knowledge
  • Environment and climate
  • Migration and security of supply
  • Perspectives
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion
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