Demographic and economic conditions in the Caribbean region combine with social and historical factors to create a structural migration situation: direction and magnitude of the flow might shift, pressures pushing Caribbean Islanders toward migration are constant. Five structural "pull" features encourage migration: (2) the…

Critics of international news flow characteristics have charged that news is biased toward the interests of the developed world and against the developing world, thereby giving an unrepresentative image of their countries to the United States reader. A study was conducted to examine the output and presentation of reports by foreign correspondents…

The transfer of technology as an important dimension for technical education in West Africa is discussed, concerning prerequisites, education, training, and socio-cultural considerations. (Author/PG)

Elementary technology, the study of technical objects, will provide a basis for development in Nigeria. Students will develop new capacities for harnessing local resources and for controlling the environment for human benefits. (Author/PG)

After targeting the main problems of developing nations, this article focuses on the problem of under and unemployment and spells out specific steps that nations and international organizations must take toward social and economic equity among and within nations if overwhelming problems of poverty, hunger, and population growth are to be met. (DE)

The causes of the world's food shortage are enumerated and explained. Possible solutions to the shortage are described with emphasis placed upon the moral decision of the affluent countries to take more responsibility in decreasing their consumption of food and energy. (DE)

Within the realization that the development of Third World countries is essential to the productive forces of the industrialized ones, Yugoslav aid has been channeled particularly toward a cooperative effort to educate and train personnel to facilitate development. (JH)

Making paper becomes a means for overcoming lack of money in a rural community: Students make money and gain scientific knowledge and practice learning skills by implementing paper-making technology. (JH)

The purpose of the present paper is to review the reasons for the growing disenchantment with traditional macro-planning efforts in education and to anticipate what effect this disenchantment may be expected to have upon education and educational planning activities in developing nations. (Author)

The address, delivered at the 27th All India Adult Education Conference, summarizes demographic data on the rural poor, their economic and social situation, and discusses land reform, technology, employment opportunities, and adult education as ways to eliminate rural poverty. Adult education promotes leadership development and community…

The resolutions stress the responsibility of the conference to initiate, support, and cooperate with the government in programs of education for the rural poor and to become involved in the implementation of such programs. (JB)

This article considered the transfer of educational innovations from industrialized to developing countries concentrating on the selection stage, its mechanics and the criteria by which innovations may be made theoretically more effective. (Author/RK)