“…These latter observations are a recurring theme in the burgeoning literature on the relationship between the EC and developing countries. Many writers, for example Beissner (1981), emphasise how the CAP constitutes an important handicap as far as the export capacity of Third World countries is concerned because they are deprived of marketing and specialisation opportunities. However, developing countries are far from homogeneous in character; Ellis et al (1973) make this quite clear in a product by product, and country by country treatment of the relationship between the CAP and developing countries.…”