Pre-crisis trends, malnutrition figures, demand and supply outlook, production potentialities, policy implications, and brief descriptions of the world's major food crops are provided. (DE)

An individual's private values cannot be a criterion for evaluation of values, nor a criterion for their inclusion in educational objectives. Values should stem from the most progressive social trends and, in defining educational objectives, Yugoslavia must remain on the firm ground of self-managing socialist development. (Author)

This is an excerpt from a report, 1967-68, by the Ministry of Education, Republic of Cuba, to the International Conference on Public Education (31st, Geneva, July 1-10, 1968).

Prepared by the Research Unit of the Irish Commission for Justice and Peace to assist those interested in current international affairs, this Glossary contains 56 terms and their definitions, which provide a brief explanation of the main issues and organizations involved in international development questions. Examples of the terms included are:…

The process of nation building in Tanzania is the topic of this book, the sixth in a series dealing with African culture and intended for secondary level students. Almost all of the selections in the book were written by Africans, and they come from a variety of sources including speeches, government documents, newspaper and magazine articles,…

Coverage of two Third World countries, Mexico and Lebanon, by "Time" and "Newsweek" magazines was analyzed by comparing the cultural differences in meanings attached to words used in the magazines to describe the two countries. Stories were collected about the countries from each issue of the magazines published in 1979. The…

The document contains proceedings of the First All India Conference on Work for the Handicapped (Bombay, 1978) and presents 25 conference papers covering rehabilitation of all categories of handicaps. Section I includes a list of committees; list of participants; the conference program; inaugural, keynote, presidential, and valedictory addresses…

Worldwide economic productivity is examined in this paper. There are seven major sections. Section 1 is an introduction which discusses how as the seventies came to a close without producing a strong and sustained recovery from global economic recession, the spotlight of public concern focused on the problem of productivity. Trends which have…

The international exchange operations of the National Diet Library in Tokyo are developed within the context of universal availability of publications, providing an historical overview of past and present operations and emphasizing the need to strengthen these exchanges with Southeast and South Asian neighbors. Included are a presentation of book…

Data from 16 university libraries in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand are used to determine, but not evaluate, the variety and extent of library services offered by ASEAN university libraries in the context of their organizational operating modes. These libraries, representing 80 percent of those queried, responded to…

This paper examines information services and resource sharing within New Zealand with a view to future participation in a Pacific resource sharing network. Activities of the National Library, the New Zealand Library Resources Committee, and the Information Services Committee are reviewed over a 40-year period, illustrating library cooperative…

Two papers on library statistics describe national programs to collect such statistics in a Western European country and a developing country in Africa: "Establishment and Organisation of National Library Statistics: The Nigerian Experience," by J. A. Dosunmu; and "German Library Statistics," by Peter Gruber. Dosunmu's paper…