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.
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 2 May 1983 Edited by: Edward Clay and Hans Singer
Food aid has become one of the most controversial and most emotional subjects within the total aid picture, and indeed within the total picture of relations between richer and poorer countries. The contributions in this issue of the Bulletin testify to the wide range of attitudes and opinions, running the gamut from the condemnation of food aid by the British Foreign Secretary in a recent speech to wholehearted support in the Brandt Report. These statements and others by the new Executive Director of the World Food Programme and the Lappé and Collins team are reproduced in this Bulletin.
Volume 14 Number 1 January 1983 Edited by: Caroline Allison and Reg Green
This Bulletin was born in response to a 1979 Request of the African Governors of the World Bank for a review of the cause and potential cures for the dim economic prospects which they believed confronted their economies. It appeared in the autumn of 1981 s the first comprehensive ideological and programmatic manifesto setting out the post-McNamara Bank's response to lagging development (in many cases distintegration), in the context of rising global economic disorder and deepening industrial economy recession.
Volume 13 Number 4 October 1982 Edited by: Gordon White
Though the trajectories of rural development in countries adopting a socialist orientation differ considerably, all have been influenced by the view that collectivisation is a primary requirement of socialist agricultural development.
Therefore, an examination of 'socialist agriculture' involves first of all an evaluation of the history, performance and advisability of collective agriculture, ie, some form of nationally organised system of joint organisation of production and distribution by the rural producers themselves, whether termed 'co-operative', 'collective farm' or 'commune'.
Though these dimensions of the reassessment process are important, and should be dealt with in any more comprehensive discussion of socialist agriculture, the contributions to this Bulletin concentrate on recent changes in systems of macro and micro-economic management and basic-level production processes, with special reference to three areas of policy change and institutional reform.