Trade and Development Board

…The first conference was held in Geneva in March-June 1964, and the 19th UN General Assembly in the same year decided to make the conference a permanent international organization directly subordinate to the UN General Assembly and to discuss pending issues through regular general meetings. As a result, the Trade and Development Board (TDB) was established as a permanent executive body, and several permanent committees were placed under it. The main organizational feature of UNCTAD is that it adopts a one-country, one-vote system, which is intended to favor the majority of Southern countries, which is in contrast to existing organizations such as the IMF, which have a voting system based on the percentage of investment. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "Trade and Development Board" is listed below.

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…こうして64年3～6月に第1回会議がジュネーブで開催されたが，同年の第19回国連総会はこの会議を国連総会直属の常設国際機関とし，定期的な総会の開催を通じて懸案事項を討議するよう決定した。この結果，常設執行機関として貿易開発理事会Trade and Development Board(TDB)が設置され，その下部にいくつかの常設委員会が置かれた。UNCTADの組織上の大きな特徴は，1国1票制が採用され，多数を占める南側諸国に有利な運営が企図されている点にあり，これは出資比率に応じた投票権制をとるIMF等の既存機関とは対照的である。…

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