1970: Volume 3
Volume 3 Number 4 November 1970
It is obvious that no society can endure unbridled conflict among its members. For a fairly stable state of affairs to prevail, conflicts of interest have to be resolved according to certain "rules of the game" which all accept, however reluctantly. The fact that matters are so resolved for some length of time may result in one group being placed at a growing disadvantage compared with the rest. Eventually, they may attempt to have the "rules" changed, by revolution if all else fails. If they succeed, the old social order will be overthrown and "play" will then be conducted according to new rules. Marx's vision of the rise of socialism following the demise of capitalism is the prime example of such a (fundamental) change.
Volume 3 Number 3 July 1970
Edited by: Rita Cruise O'Brien and Clive Bell
One tends to think of University students in the third world as the budding elite -- educated to a style and at a cost which reinforces aspirations for a life far removed in income, status, power, and often even geographical distance from the mass of their fellow countrymen. No doubt, this is the pattern in most developing countries (as well as in many developed ones), even where graduate unemployment has reduced the expected earnings of the educated and introduced a demoralising delay before finding a job. But the student movement in certain countries of Latin America and recent events in Ethiopia and Ceylon make one wonder whether the picture might be beginning to change -- rhetoric becoming more genuine, and elitism giving place to serious involvement and more active political commitment.
Volume 3 Number 2 May 1970
Edited by: Rita Cruise O'Brien
'Don't send men. Send money' read the text of the now legendary Uganda telegram of the mid-sixties, a catchphrase enjoyed thoroughly among those in the aid business. This issue of the Bulletin takes a critical look at manpower aid, experts and foreign advisers in ldc's.
Volume 3 Number 1 September 2026
Edited by: Emmanuel de Kadt
In this issue of the Bulletin we take a look at the transfer of technology from the developed to timeless developed countries, It is now becoming increasingly realized that technological transfers, though obviously of vital importance to the ldc's, are by no means always and necessarily beneficial, But much wider awareness is still needed of tir aLrcumstances in which the effects are likely to be positive for development. As the contributors to this issue make abundantly clear, however, knowledge alone will not cure the problem: what is needed is government action by the ldc's (and preferably at least regionally coordinated verninent action) to counteract the free play of economic forces and to develop a framework or constraints within which technology transfers can occur which have the greatest possible developmental impact.
1969: Volume 2
Volume 2 Number 4 October 1969
Edited by: Clive Bell
The present issue of the Bulletin focusses on that failure. Growth rates and statistics of incomes per capita have (suddenly) been found wanting as valid indicators of development. Till quite recently only scattered and isolated (though very insistent) voices were raised against the exclusion of large sectors of the population of ldc's from the benefits of those growth rates. Now these voices have swollen to something of an international chorus decrying development which forgets about the peasants and the urban poor. The lack of work and of income for a growing proportion of the labour force has been noticed at last; an employment orientation is emerging in many quarters since the ILO formulated the World Employment Programme early in 1969. (This issue cf the Bulletin appears only a few weeks after the Report of the pilot mission on Employment, sent to Colombia by ILO, was accepted by the Colombian President - see the article by Dudley Seers below and while the first Study Seminar on such problems was being held at IDS We, too, have caught on).
