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The article discusses the risk that governments of countries with advanced economies will do too little to control the 2008 financial crisis. The projection by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that advanced economies will suffer their first aggregate drop in economic output since World War II is also mentioned.

The article offers information on the result of the United Nations (U.N) survey concerning the world's economic system in the Postwar years. It mentions that manufacturing in the developed countries such as the U.S. has increased rather than prewar which resulted to wide gap to less developed countries. It states that the Soviet bloc countries show a decline in the average rates of growth. It adds that the non-dollar areas were encouraged for production due to the shortages of good.

The article focuses on the possible impact of the collapse in short-term export financing to Third World economies. It states that the problem may withhold the fundamental materials and equipment from the industrial countries and from the U.S. It also mentions that due to the said problem, Latin American countries were urged to reduce imports from the U.S. by 16 billion dollars in 1983 from 39 billion dollars in 1981, and farms and factories are unable to obtain hard currency from central banks.

Examines France's 35-hour workweek. Money the law implementing the shorter workweek has cost the French economy; Decrease in the number of working hours just as the average working time in the developed world was increasing; Fact that half of the public don't even like the law; Negative message that France is no longer interested in things like growth, prosperity and dynamism the law has sent out; Beneficiaries; Hospital shortages.

In this article, the author discusses the shift in the balance of payments in the U.S. He notes that the improvement is part of the good trade and payments by major industrial countries. Meanwhile, oil price hike in October 1975 planned by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) could affect the hopes of industrial countries for a business recovery and lower inflation. It adds that the trend will likely to drop in the second half of 1975 due to the decline in farm exports.

Presents views on the role of the U.S. in carrying out an agenda of economic growth for industrial nations in the 1990s. Factors needed to coordinate the economic policies of the Group of Seven countries; Basis of a common commitment to high growth; Significance of the completion of the General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade Uruguay Round to international trade.

Reports that the economies of developed countries are in nonsynchronous expansion. Faster pace in Japan and West Germany to offset U.S. slowdown; Impact on U.S. trade deficit; Trimming of trade surpluses overseas.

The article offers news briefs related to politics in the U.S. Major industrial countries pledged to trust economic indicators to coordinate their economies to maintain their currencies. The Pentagon hearing examiner ruled that Lester Crown, executive vice president and director of General Dynamics Corp., should be cleared from his involvement in 1972 scheme. Former North Carolina Representative Walter Eugene Johnson is the leading candidate to resolve problem in Small Business Administration.