ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a narrative of the north-south intergovernmental dialogue from 1975 through 1982. It discusses the northern goals that the New International Economic Order ideology began to include after 1974. The chapter looks at the policy proposals that the south has dropped since 1974. It also discusses the experiments in tactics the Less Developed Countries (LDC) that have employed and illustrates why the south may decide that substantive intergovernmental debate is needed. The few portents of possible north-south agreement came from the actions of intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, not from government to government talks. Basic needs programs supported by the north looked a lot like other northern efforts aimed at deflecting the north-south dialogue from what the LDCs felt was its proper course -- northern concerns population control, resource limits to growth, agricultural development, and northern economic recovery.
