1969: Volume 2
Volume 2 Number 1 January 1969
Edited by: Dudley Seers
According to the Duncan Committee, a diplomat is a man who goes abroad to sell washing machines for his country. He may lie, but mainly he sells washing machines. The application of this view to reorganising British representation overseas has provoked strong feelings among those who feel that it wilfully undermines Britain's contribution to development. The part given to aid administration is too small and by not recommending an increase (as well as by expressly relegating less developed countries to the second division of British interest overseas) the Committee is seen as conniving to waste and under-administration.
There are several kinds of moral and political concern in the opposition expressed by contributors to the Duncan Report: most involve a feeling, altruistic or paternalistic, of continued responsibility for ex-colonial states and some have to do with the 'condition of Britain' - as with Guy Hunter's organic view that society needs a sense of common purpose. We hope that this symposium makes it clear that feelings about the Report have not been assuaged by the passing of time.
Volume 2 Number 2 May 1969
Edited by: Emmanuel de Kadt
This issue of the Bulletin is largely devoted to the Report of the Commissioú on International Development (the Pearson Commission), constituted in August 1968 at the invitation of the President of the World Bank, Nr. Robert McNaivara, to assess the results of twenty years of development assistance and propose new policies for the future.
Volume 2 Number 3 July 1969
Edited by: Emmanuel de Kadt
This issue of the Bulletin contains articles which look at the way in which non-governmental initiatives overseas may help or hinder the achievement of development goals. Two points emerge clearly from the contributions. In the first place, views on this matter differ quite sharply; secondly, the differences can to a large extent be traced back to alternative choices regarding the path and the ultimate goals of development.
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).
1970: Volume 3
Volume 3 Number 1 January 1970
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.
