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the Nordic countries to assist developing countries with drug evaluations and improving their access to useful drug information. 4. The British and other Governments should set up their own investigation of drug policies and the Third World to identify which measures that they could take would be most helpful to health authorities in developing countries. A Government study could usefully focus on a possible tightening up of export controls and a contrasting opening up of access to information on drug exports. For example, as a first step to make it possible to evaluate the impact of existing export policies on developing countries, the Government could set up a register giving details of individual drug exports. This register shoul B&R