1983: Volume 14
Volume 14 Number 3 July 1983
Edited by: Chris Stevens
The articles in this Bulletin set out to identify areas for an EEC initiative. All are based upon papers presented to a conference held at the IDS in June 1982 on the theme of 'Europe and the South in the 1980s: Prospects for Political Change'.' Most have since been revised substantially, to take account both of the comments made at the conference, and of the effects of subsequent events. All of them take it as given that there will continue to be a set of Community-level policies on North-South issues, in addition to policies established at a member-state level.
Volume 14 Number 4 October 1983
Edited by: Emmanuel de Kadt
Our purpose in this Bulletin is to focus on some issues that have been at the centre of debate in the health field during recent years. In this area there are many principles that apply equally to developing and developed countries and, while the majority of the articles concern the Third World, two are included about industrialised countries to make this point more concrete.
1984: Volume 15
Volume 15 Number 1 January 1984
Edited by: Kate Young
This Bulletin covers a range of themes including research on rural women's economic activities, power relationships between men and women, women's consciousness, solidarity and divisions among women, women's capacity to organise and struggle for a more just society, and the effectiveness of policy measures to promote gender equality in both employment and the family. Most of the articles here originated as papers discussed at two workshops funded by the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, and held at the IDS in Spring 1982 under the rubric 'rapid appraisal of the situation of rural women'. One workshop concentrated on a critique of the dominant concepts used in both research work and development policy-making relating to rural societies (most fundamentally, the prevailing definitions of 'work' and 'the household').
The second workshop focused on research techniques. Our aim was to ask a number of leading researchers in the field to summarise the experience of their investigations in a way that would be of use for those undertaking policy oriented research, which often has to be carried out under tight time constraints.
Volume 15 Number 2 May 1984
Edited by: Gordon White and Robert Wade
The papers in this Bulletin focus on different aspects of the historical experience of state economic involvement
in three East Asian NICs, one socialist (China) and two capitalist (Taiwan and South Korea). Taking the two capitalist cases first, state economic involvement has been thorough-going in both (though with important differences): officials have imposed strict controls on flows of investment funds and have acted systematically to change the incentive structures of commodity markets in pursuit of national economic priorities. They have not only intervened to determine the evolving structure of the domestic economy, but also to capture the potential benefits offered by foreign capital and commodity markets by setting favourable terms of interaction conducive to strategic national goals.
Volume 15 Number 3 July 1984
Edited by: Hans Singer and Carlos Fortin
UNCTAD is celebrating this year the 20th anniversary of its foundation, but the atmosphere is not entirely congratulatory. In the anti-internationalist mood current in important sectors within the industrialised countries, notably in the United States and Britain, the fundamental ideas of the United Nations organisation as a whole are being questioned. The governments of these countries, furthermore, are strongly antiinterventionist in outlook; UNCTAD, as the UN agency mandated to negotiate and oversee changes in international economic arrangements, is, not surprisingly, a particular focus of criticism. The prolonged recession undergone by the OECD countries over the past five years has helped encourage nationalist economic tendencies and bolstered opposition to reforms of a redistributive character in the international economy.
