The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development was established by the UN General Assembly in 1964 and headquartered in Geneva, to give developing countries a stronger organized voice in the postwar trading system than the GATT's tariff-negotiation framework offered them. Its first Secretary-General, Raul Prebisch, built the institution around a structuralist critique of the classical case for comparative-advantage-based free trade, arguing that specialization in commodity exports left developing economies permanently disadvantaged against manufacturing exporters, a critique the institution still carries into its present work on trade and development policy.
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Comparative Advantage, Concepts Why this is disputed. UNCTAD was built around founding Secretary-General Raul Prebisch's structuralist critique of the classical case for comparative-advantage-based free trade, arguing it left commodity-exporting economies permanently disadvantaged against manufacturing exporters.
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Prebisch was UNCTAD's first Secretary-General from 1964 and shaped its trade-and-development agenda along structuralist lines.
Source The Economic Development of Latin America and Its Principal Problems
Between 1964 and 1969, Prebisch served as the founding secretary-general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the institution built on the structuralist and dependency ideas (center-periphery, terms-of-trade decline) already credited to him on this atlas. No live relation type for founder/founded-by exists on this atlas (the live 'founded' relation type is institution-to-founding-event, InverseName Founding Event, not person-to-institution); recorded as a vocabulary gap.
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It was created in response to concerns among developing countries that existing international institutions like GATT (since replaced by the World Trade Organization), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank were not properly organized to handle the particular problems of developing countries; UNCTAD would provide a forum where developing nations could discuss and address problems relating to their economic development.
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UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is an intergovernmental organization within the United Nations Secretariat which promotes the interests of developing countries in the governance of international trade, financial flows and technology transfer.
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About UNCTAD sectionQuote, About UNCTAD section
a permanent intergovernmental body established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1964
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Wikidata Q182000, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source The Economic Development of Latin America and Its Principal Problems
Associated With: Latin American Structuralism
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Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Raul Prebisch, Raul Prebisch, lead section
Between 1964 and 1969, he served as the founding secretary-general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
Associated With: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Introduction (GATT reference)
It was created in response to concerns among developing countries that existing international institutions like GATT (since replaced by the World Trade Organization), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank were not properly organized to handle the particular problems of developing countries; UNCTAD would provide a forum where developing nations could discuss and address problems relating to their economic development.
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