This book presents papers on the recycling of funds from surplus to deficit countries; stabilizing the existing International Financial System; securing an adequate level of investment return for surplus countries; the role of the special drawing rights; and mineral and energy financing.

Foreword: The Background to the Project -- Introduction: Issues in International Financial Cooperation -- An Overview -- Recycling in the 1970s and Prospects for the 1980s -- Transfer of Resources; Institutional Alternatives -- New Financial Mechanisms -- Recycling to the Poorest Countries -- Whose Conditionality? -- International Currency Reform -- A World View: The Case for a World Development Council -- South-South Monetary Cooperation -- Action for the 1980s -- Articles Contributed Towards the Final Report on International Financial Cooperation