African-European economic relations under the Lome Convention : commodities and the scheme of stabilization of export earnings

Analysis of the actual functioning of Stabex over the period covered by the First Lome Convention (1975 to 1979) and the first three years of implementation of the Second Lome Convention (1980 to 1982). The study shows that the system is fraught with many deficiencies relating to its mechanism, financial resources, distribution of benefits and actual operation by the Community's authorities, and that Stabex has not been able to solve in a satisfactory manner the commodities problem encountered by the African ACP states. (DÜI-Hns)