1978: Volume 9
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?
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 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.
1977: Volume 9
Volume 9 Number 1 January 1977
Edited by: Robin Luckham
The State is a powerful reality and a still more powerful abstraction. An abstraction which conservatives who believe in 'political order' affirm; which revolutionaries hope to smash or negate; which planners and technocrats make use of in order to propound ideologies of state managed development; and the influence of which others who see it as the captive of class forces minimise. All the essays in this issue of the IDS Bulletin attempt to penetrate behind this abstraction by looking at various state institutions in a concrete way
1976: Volume 8
Volume 8 Number 4 October 1976
Edited by: James A. Craig
This guest edition of the IDS Bulletin has been contributed by members of the Department of Administrative Studies, University of Manchester (DAS), which holds courses, of varying length, for public officials from developing countries.
Many of those who attend these courses are what used to be termed 'generalist' administrators, and a number of articles in the first part of this issue refer to problems of course construction, content and teaching methods, to be applied to a group whose only common feature would appear to be the state as paymaster. The 'business' or 'industry' of running such courses is the subject of worldwide debate: what does training actually mean; in what sense is it different from education; does training improve administrative capacity, etc. These questions are familiar to many readers of the Bulletin, and there is little doubt that the answers are as various as the people involved.
