NorthSouth A Program for Survival Author:Willy Brandt This report is the result of an independent investigation by a group of international statesmen and leaders, headed by Willy Brandt, into the urgent problems of inequality in the world and the failure of its economic system. — The report takes its title from the belief that major international initiatives are needed if mankind is going to survive... more ». For the hundreds of millions of people who live on the edge of starvation in the developing countries, the South, this is a matter of obvious fact. How can these countries be ensured and economic environment in which they can cope with their own problems? The industrialized countries, the North, have not been willing in the past to go very far far towards accepting the South's case that the world economy works to the South's disadvantage. The report argues that today, in almost every field of the world's present troubles, a substantial number of the solutions depend on recognizing the mutual interests between North and South.« less