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International Economic Cooperation Revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

David Henderson
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This Lecture Has a Dual Theme. Theme Number One is the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the OECD, where I worked from the beginning of 1984 till the spring of this year. I was originally asked by Ghita Ionescu to prepare for Government and Opposition an article on the Organization, as one of a series which the journal has been carrying on different international agencies. Two such articles have already appeared: one by Sir Nicholas Bayne, on the GATT and the Uruguay Round, and the other by Andrew Crockett on the IMF. I am pleased to be following these distinguished authors, the more so since I think of them both as former quasi-colleagues — a term that I will explain later — at the OECD. But when the further idea of a lecture was raised, Professor Ionescu suggested that my subject-matter should be extended to cover international economic cooperation more generally, on the understanding that this broader theme would be linked to the specific case of the OECD.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , 01 January 1993 , pp. 11 - 35
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1993

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1 Bayne, Nicholas, ‘The Uruguay Round of International Trade Negotiations’, Government and Opposition , Vol. 26, No. 3, Summer 1991;CrossRefGoogle Scholar Crockett, A. D., “The International Monetary Fund in the 1990s”, Government and Opposition , Vol. 27, No. 3, Summer 1992.Google Scholar

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5 The following paragraphs draw on a talk that I gave in September 1992 at the UK Presidential Conference, which was later published in part in the Wall Street Journal.

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7 Some interesting variations on this theme are to be found in an essay by my former OECD colleague, Jeffrey, Shafer, on ‘Structural Reform in the Pnmsa of Interationd Policy Cooperation’, published aa a chapter in Blommestein, H. J. (ed.), The Reality of International Policy Coordination , Amsterdam, North‐Holland, 1991.Google Scholar

8 Quoted from the official Communiqué of the 1992 meeting of the OECD Ministerial Council.

9 Bayne, Nicholas, ‘Making Sense of Western Economic Policies: The Role of the OECD’, The World Today , 02 1987.Google Scholar