The future of the world economy

Abstract

The basis for the present report is a study on the environmental aspects of the future world economy. This study includes as a principal feature, a set of alternative projections of the demographic, economic and environmental states of the world in bench-mark years 1980, 1990 and 2000. The detailed methodology and substantive finding of the study are released in parts one and two of the present report. This introduction is meant to give a short history of the project and to summarize the findings and conclusions of the study having the most immediate interest for the current deliberations on the future of the International Development Strategy and ways of implementing the new international economic order.