HR/CN/812
11 September 1997
SECRETARY-GENERAL: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Excuse me - I swallowed the wrong way just as I was introduced, and I can assure you it was not nervousness.
GENEVA, 11 September (UNCTAD) -- The big story of the world economy since the early 1980s has been increasing integration through the unleashing of market forces. But there is also another story, one that is attracting increasing attention in the 1990s: social and economic divisions among, and within, countries are widening.