What does "their" refer to in the following sentence?
It was a vehicle for dealing with a number of fundamental problems confronting developing countries and exploring their relationship to the underlying trends in the international economy.
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It was a vehicle for dealing with a number of fundamental problems confronting developing countries and exploring their relationship to the underlying trends in the international economy.
On the basis of what seems to make most sense: the fundamental problems.
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exploring the relationship of those problems to the underlying ...