ABSTRACT
This chapter explores whether and how the basic framework of the North-South relationship is changing, but the method employed is inevitably eclectic. It examines what the experts perceive as the central problems and what prescriptions they have developed to deal with these problems. The chapter discusses the policy implications for the US government on two levels: first, what might be done to improve the prospects of effective implementation by developing-country governments and second, as many governments will not be able or willing to implement the prescriptions effectively, what might be done to deal with the international environment created by very asymmetric patterns of success and failure. The two levels connected in the very crucial sense that what happens in one area will be heavily affected by developments in the other areas. Developments in the international system will probably have a decisive impact on what happens in all of the specific areas of concern.
