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).