1978: Volume 9
Volume 9 Number 2 May 1978
Edited by: Robin Luckham and Richard Jolly
For the past four years the major industrial OECD countries have been in the throes of a crisis brought to a head by the oil price rises of 1973-74, but arising from longer-run difficulties which had already begun to appear by the late 1960s. The crisis is by no means over. The situation of the economically stronger countries such as the USA, Japan and West Germany seems to be on the upturn but the recovery of others including Britain is still very much in doubt. With increasing oil output, Britain's balance of payments is rapidly improving but this is far from a sufficient condition for dealing with unemployment, stagnation in key sectors, regional imbalance, low productivity and decline or collapse in the social services. And in any case the issues for Britain are not simply economic, but involve also social and political problems which recession has sharpened: the difficulties of coming to terms with Scottish, Welsh and Irish nationalism; racial conflict; political violence; persistent poverty; the erosion of the welfare state; and corruption and decay in our police and local government bureaucracies.
It is with some trepidation that we undertake in this issue of the Bulletin to analyse some of these dangers and to call attention to some of the opportunities which lie beyond them.
Volume 9 Number 3 July 1978
Edited by: Leslie Palmer and Mike Shepperdson
The contrasting cities of Bath and Swansea are alike in that each has a Centre for Development Studies within their respective universities. However, it is hoped that readers of the IDS Bulletin will gain some idea of the direction and scope of Development Studies at Swansea and Bath, and that an exchange of views can be generated.
Volume 9 Number 4 October 1978
Edited by: Alan Rew
That people caught up in the development process have 'basic needs' and that these have not been met should have come as no surprise. The fact that in the last two years or so it has is in one view almost incredible. With the new concern for basic needs strategies are we admitting that development institutions simply forgot that people had basic needs? And are we now to applaud their rediscovery when to anyone else the need to satisfy them was self evident?
1979: Volume 10
Volume 10 Number 1 January 1979
Edited by: Andrew Coulson
This issue of the IDS Bulletin has been produced by the Project Planning Centre for Developing Countries of the University of Bradford, England, whose main work since 1970 has been to run courses in project appraisal for nationals from the Third World. The contents reflect the Centre's concern not only with the techniques of project appraisal but also with the social and political issues raised by using them.
Volume 10 Number 2 May 1979
Edited by: Robert Chambers
Rural people in third world countries, and especially the poorer rural people, are losers in many ways. Whatever vocabulary is in fashion whether one talks of dependence, deprivation, domination, exclusion, exploitation, impoverishment, marginalisation, powerlessness or subordination part of the reality to be captured is weakness. This weakness is often seen in terms of lack of political organisation, poor access to resources, employment and services, and impotence in the face of class and urban interests and of the machinery of the state.
