Argues for the development of national planning policy concerning scientific research and technological advancement in Latin American countries based upon the model of Venezuela's development. (SL)

Based on fieldwork conducted in Brittany, France, during 1983 and 1984, discusses changes in Breton responses to death which have accompanied modernization and economic development. Suggests that familiarity with death and acceptance of it are being replaced by the "denial of death" characteristic of contemporary Western culture. Notes…

As part of a strategic planning effort guiding community socioeconomic development through 2000, the citizens of Rochester, Minnesota, tackled the problem of providing equitable, accessible, and accountable higher education. Studying external factors and developing an internal situation analysis led to a set of higher education issues and…

Traces the evolution of perspectives on Latin American underdevelopment to reveal the changing realities in Latin America as well as evolving world views. Covering the five centuries since Columbus discovered the West Indies, Topik concludes that the idea of underdevelopment is a European construct resulting from greater European progress and a…

Examines producer services industries and reviews possible explanations for the growth of this industrial group. Particular attention is paid to the unbundling hypothesis, which argues that industries are transfering activities performed in-house to producer service providers. The presented evidence discredits this as a major force behind the…

Presents the working paper from an International Labour Office (ILO) symposium on international development and the role of workers' education. Covers the state of the world, poverty, worker education, labor unions, program planning, and the role of the ILO. (JOW)

Presents the report of an International Labour Office (ILO) symposium on international development and the role of workers' education. Covers the general situation, issues, role of trade unions, educational aspects of workers' involvement in development issues, and the role of the ILO. (JOW)

States that economic geography, by itself, does not completely explain the geography of world economic development. Argues that development must also be viewed in terms of the cultural peculiarities which influence it. Cites as examples the early United States economy, consisting of a capitalist North and an agricultural South, and the Apartheid…

Drawing on Kaufman's distinction between development in the community and development of the community, this paper discusses the constraints on local economic development associated with increased concentration of capital. The likelihood of successfully employing "import substitution" and other localization strategies without confronting issues of…

Discusses the history of home economics in international development related to women, current involvement of home economics professionals in development endeavors, contributions of home economics to women in development (including strategies aimed at productivity, family welfare, and women-specific projects), and barriers to participation by home…

Argues for the establishment of a substantive, far-reaching educational development program for entrepreneurship, spanning elementary through postsecondary and continuing education. Program foci would be (1) entrepreneurship awareness and exploration and (2) responsiveness to the local small business community. (SK)

This critique of John Langton's behavioral evolutionist account of the development of bureaucracy in the 18th Century British pottery industry contends that the evolutionary explanation rests on unexamined functionalist assumptions which overlook social costs and the mediating effects of the class structure and the profit motive. (TE)

Langton responds to Perrow's critique of his behavioral evolutionism by addressing four broad issues: the relationship between organizational evolution and environmental structure; the role of human creativity in organizational evolution; the relationship between social power and bureaucratization; and the relationship between organizational…

Reports on investigation of two culturally similar Inupiat Eskimo regions which had substantially different 1970 suicide rates. Notes that interaction of economic development and modern education was significantly associated with sharp rise in suicides in one region where depressed economic structure could not facilitate goal achievement fostered…