Review of maritime transport, 1972-1973

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The Global Economic Crisis: Systemic Failures and Multilateral Remedies

Report by the UNCTAD Secretariat Task Force on Systemic Issues and Economic Cooperatio

The Behavioural Effects of Consumer Ethnocentrism: The moderating role of product category, brand and country of origin

Purpose – Despite the well-established impact of consumer ethnocentrism (CET) on purchase intentions, extant literature offers limited evidence on actual purchase behaviour. This study addresses this gap by investigating the factors underlying variations in consumer ethnocentric behaviour using reported brand purchases. Product category, product cost and visibility, brand and country of origin of purchased products are investigated for their impact on the differences in the behavioural effects of CET. Design/methodology/approach – This study uses survey data collected in the United States from a sample of 468 consumers. Self-reported brand purchases are used and involve 10 product categories, 432 brands, and 22 countries of origin. Logistic regressions for repeated measures are used to test the hypotheses formulated. Findings – The results confirm that product category is an important determinant of the behavioural effects of CET. CET also has a significant impact on purchases of the most expensive product categories rather than frequently purchased convenient items. Contrary to existing empirical evidence, cultural similarity does not mitigate the negative effects of CET and product visibility does not strengthen the behavioural effect of CET. Practical implications – The study results should enhance managers’ understanding of the determinants of ethnocentric behaviour. The results caution managers about the value of self-reported measures and indicate that product features other than country of origin may be more effective in mitigating the negative effects of CET. Originality/value – This study contributes to extant literature on CET and country of origin by investigating, for the first time, the problem of inconsistent predictions of purchase behaviour in the context of foreign versus domestic brands. For this purpose, the study adopted a novel methodological approach to investigate actual brand purchases

Commodity Earnings Promotion By and for SSA: Where should we be looking?

Discussion note prepared for Expert Group Workshop on "Prospects of export trade in Commodities for Africa and improvements in commodity policies". Organized by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in co-operation with the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). Geneva 21-25 September 1987UNDP Preparatory Assistance Project RAF/87/01

UNCTAD VII-what is really at stake

The seventh United Nations Conference on Trade and Development will be held in Geneva in July 1987. Heinrich Dehn reviews the issues on the agenda and shows where the policies of the industrialised and developing countries need to be revised

Statement to the UNCTAD Shipping Committee on Open-Registry Fleets

Prexy Nesbitt, a Chicago-based anti-apartheid activist, delivered this statement at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on behalf of the World Council of Churches where he served as the Research Secretary for the Programme to Combat Racism. 6 pages

A Report on the Lima Meeting of the "Group of 77"

As the readers of this Bulletin know, the Group of 77 was formed at the time of the first United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 1964 as a vast lobby or pressure group to present a united phalanx of developing (aliter underdeveloped) countries arrayed opposite the developed industrialized ones

The Integrated Programme for Commodities

The fifth session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Manila will undertake a detailed review of the progress in the implementation of the Integrated Programme for Commodities. I. S. Chadha attempts such a review from the point of view of UNCTAD for our readers

Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Convention on International Multimodal Transport of Goods

Council of Ministers Thirty-Sixth Ordinary Session 23 February-1 March 1981 Addis AbabaThis is a report by the Secretary General discussing the progress of the United Nations Convention on International Multimodal Transport of Goods, which was adopted by consensus by the United Nations Conference on the subject, on 24th May 1980 after seven years of protracted negotiations under the auspices of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Power, Ideology, and Global Development: On the Origins, Evolution and Achievements of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

UNCTAD was created in 1964 as a forum for strategic thinking about international trade and development issues and for identifying mutually beneficial opportunities for policy coordination and international co-operation with the participation of both developing and industrialized countries. The history of UNCTAD, with its successes and failures, therefore, is closely intertwined with the history of ideas on trade and development and the interplay of political power and ideological manipulation in international trade and development policy making. This paper focuses on the intellectual traditions in economics which underpinned the formation of UNCTAD and examines the way such intellectual traditions have informed – both in method and substance – the subsequent thinking and research output by the institution and helped define its objectives. It compares UNCTAD’s methods and research output on a number of international development issues with the positions taken by other international institutions. These findings are used to reflect on the ideological element in development economics thinking