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Effects of President Nixon's August measures on developing countries

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This paper assesses President Nixon’s recently announced sweeping measures to strengthen the US economy. The paper warns that there is now a danger that the preoccupation of members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) with their own economic adjustment distracts attention from the more acute problems of less developed countries.