PUBLISHER:
Ambassador Daudi N. Mwakawago
Chairman of the Group of 77

MANAGING EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:
Mourad Ahmia

EXECUTIVE EDITOR:
Thalif Deen

The Journal of the Group of 77 is published every month at the United Nations Headquarters by the Office of the Chairman of the Group of 77 in New York, in collaboration with the Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency and the Third World Network.

Contents

• Editorial

• G-77 Chairman says rest of decade decisive for Third World nations

• Group of 77 needs to articulate global strategy

• Africa should receive U.N.'s undivided attention

• U.N. Should not diminish its role in social and economic affairs

• G-77 Chairman singles out poverty and debt as two critical Third World
  problems

• Gratis personnel system is undemocratic

• Pious words will not eradicate poverty, says G-77 Chairman at the Microcredit Summit

• Don't demote desertification convention to second class instrument, says G-77 Chairman

• Lack of funds hamper TCDC programmes

• U.S. bipartisan group calls for a new package on partnership with Africa

• U.S. continues to grab major U.N. contracts

• NGOs appeal to U.S. Congress to pay up

• OECD development vision for 21st century: Poorest losing out yet again

• Nairobi Chapter: G-77 concerned about UNEP's waning budget

• Nairobi should remain center of U.N. environmental activities

• Geneva Chapter: Full calendar of activities for 1997

• Rome Chapter: Food, the main issue for the next two years

• Vienna Chapter: The future role of UNIDO to be addressed by special session

• ‘WTO conference a big let-down’