Eventful Life - Maurice Odle

Dr Maurice Odles Professional Life As An Academic And Senior National, Regional And International Civil Servant Intersected With The Clash Of Two Powerful Economic Forces, Namely The Economic Nationalism Of The Underdeveloped World And The Profit Maximising Operations Of Foreign Transnational Corporations. While Developing Countries, In Recent Decades, Have Significantly Increased Their Capacity For Dealing With Foreign Investment Issues And The Nexus Areas Of International Trade, Finance And Transfer Of Technology, The West Has Frustrated Them In Their Efforts To Bring About Fundamental Change In International Economic Relations And In The Neo-liberal Rules Of The Game. For Example, The United Nations Initiative(s) Of The Developing Countries With Respect To A International Economic Order (relating Mainly To Trade) Fell Apart By The End Of The 1970s; Intensive Negotiations On A Code Of Conduct On Transnational Corporations Were Abandoned In The Early1990s; And Negotiations With Respect To 'financing For Development' (that Were Supposed To Usher In A Financial Order) Continue To Be Agonisingly Slow; Policy Making Remains Essentially The Preserve Of The Washingtonbased Bretton Woods Institutions, Like The Imf And The World Bank.