Odnosi Sjevera i Juga i položaj Jugoslavije
Relations Between the North and the South and the Position of Yugoslavia

Summary/Abstract: Relations between the North and the South, that is. between the developed and the developing countries, are the main sources of most problems encumbering international economic relations in general. The difficulty to arrive at a different settlement of these relations stems from the endeavours of the developed countries to preserve their present positions, on the one hand, and from the efforts of the underdeveloped to alter their position within the international economic community, on the other. An important consideration here is that a change of their position is not demanded as a responsibility of the developed countries to make up for the historic injustice done to the former dependent territories but as a solution of the current problems of developing countries, which are at the same time problems of the whole international community. The prevailing relations of subordination and supremacy exist as a rule to the determent of the so-called small economies and small countries. The Ricardian model of comparative advantages has only a limited scope and secondary value in the context of contemporary international economic relations, presupposing as they do a non¬ -existent freedom of movement of production factors. The monopoly of the industrialized countries over technology, capital and global transactions can be broken only by new monopolies. This, in turn, presupposes the unity of developing countries and the ’natural alliance’ of small and of developing countries. It is in this context that the possibilities should be assessed of economic co-operation between Yugoslavia and Austria in the framework of the international economic community and of current North-South relations.

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