Presents a linear programing method for estimating enrollment transition rates in countries where repetition counts are nonexistent or unreliable. This method requires minimal data and allows incorporation of limiting information from miscellaneous sources. Results confirm the suspicion that officially reported data in some countries underestimate…

Examines problems with archives and records management in Africa. Highlights include a lack of resources; poor management; inappropriate staff and inappropriate training; lack of effective tools and techniques; and suggested solutions, including support from top management, a change in archivists' attitudes, better staff selection and training,…

Discusses the economic situation in the non-Arab nations of Africa. Presents two opposing views of the efforts of the World Bank at adjusting the financial programs of governments of developing countries. Suggests that perhaps with cooperation the cycle of poverty and disease can be broken in Africa. (DK)

Examines societal and academic factors influencing the development of comparative education since 1945, particularly in the United States. Discusses the dominance of structural functionalism and human capital theory in the 1960s, the recent shift to diverse research orientations and ideologies, and effects of institutional decline and…

Uses data from the 1985 Cote d'Ivoire Living Standards Survey to examine pay differences between teachers and other wage earners in the Ivory Coast. Results indicate that teachers' base salaries contain a rent component that disappears when the total remuneration plan is considered. Includes 20 references. (MLH)

The Christoffel-Blindenmission helps support 26 schools, centers, and rehabilitation programs for individuals with visual impairments in South America. This article discusses the organization's limited use of foreign specialists to discourage overdependency on the agency and to encourage local personnel to establish their own programs. (Author/JDD)

Provides an annotated bibliography of 33 publications from 24 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America that deal with topics such as health, housing, the environment, contraception, and trade. Statistical yearbooks and bulletins are highlighted as essential categories of government publishing. (LRW)

Emphasizing expository writing, this paper describes the writing instruction approaches used in IKIP Bandung, an Indonesian institute. The syntax-to-rhetoric approach is discussed along with strategies to help students practice topic development with appropriate linguistic forms. (Contains three references.) (LB)

Includes "Chemicals: Benefits and Dangers" (Obadia); "Jobs, Development and Environment" (Bhalla); "Improving the Urban Work Environment" (Miller); "Learning to Manage Tomorrow's World"; and "Indigenous Peoples and Sustainable Development" (Doohan). (JOW)

Comparisons between sibling relationships in industrialized and nonindustrialized societies revealed differences in how siblings are defined, cultural norms regulating sibling role responsibilities, importance of sibling structure variables, sibling caretaking and socialization, relationship between siblings, and range of variation in sibling…

Examines the extent that teacher incentives were related to teachers' instructional practices and career satisfaction within a group of junior secondary school teachers in Botswana. Results indicate that the level of incentives teachers received was meaningfully related to teachers' career satisfaction but not related to teachers' classroom…

Home economics education needs to reform its curriculum to reflect developing countries' needs and to reach the rural and urban poor. It needs to make its mission more focused to avoid being misunderstood. (JOW)

Includes four articles that focus on networking in developing nations: "The Reconfiguration of International Information Infrastructure Assistance Since 1991"; "International Assistance for Networking in Less-Developed Countries: The IDRC Example"; "International Assistance for Internet Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa";…

An action research investigation of an aquaculture project in Bangladesh resulted in a process model of interagency partnerships between nongovernmental organizations and government. Findings showed partnerships are diverse and highly vulnerable to external forces such as economics, politics, culture, and support of those in power. (SK)

Using UNESCO's recent data, explores effects of a country's income and "tropicality" on school life expectancy. Although income's effect is important, distance from the equator also matters. Effects of tropicality were larger in 1980 than in 1992. Implications are discussed. (13 references) (MLH)