ABSTRACT
The Brandt Report (1980 is the latest of a number of analyses and policy documents to propose an increased transfer of additional resources from developed to developing countries as a key element in a global programme for restoring long-run dynamism to the world economy and ending the widespread under-utilisation of capital and labour. In the Brandt Report, the large-scale transfer of resources to developing countries would be part of an integrated emergency programme along with three other components: an international energy strategy; a global food programme; and a start on some major reforms in the international economic system. The transfers would have as their most urgent objectives assistance to the poorest countries and regions most seriously threatened by the current economic crisis and provision for financing the debts and deficits of middle-income countries.
