1980 - 1989: Recent submissions
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Manufactures and Semi?manufactures: twenty years of work in UNCTAD
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1984)SUMMARY UNCTAD has sponsored a number of important agreements and conventions designed to promote the developing countries' prospects for exporting manufactures. The history of the negotiations which have brought these ... -
UNCTAD and Commodities: towards a new agenda for research and action
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1984)SUMMARY Very few commodity agreements have been reached under UNCTAD's auspices and the IPC has fallen far short of expectations. Greater success in future depends on understanding the interests, groups and political ... -
Deceleration in World Economic Growth and Industrial Development in the Third World
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1984)SUMMARY UNCTAD's work in the area of manufactures has been guided by the idea that manufacturing is the engine of autonomous growth and development. Until recently industrialisation proceeded apace in the Third World. But ... -
Money, Finance and Global Macroeconomics: UNCTAD in the 1970s and 1980s
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1984)SUMMARY It has always been understood that UNCTAD has to give attention to questions of money and finance as well as trade; it has initiated important proposals in this field despite its lack of operational powers. The ... -
UNCTAD, Collective Self?reliance, Technical Assistance and the International Financial System
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1984)SUMMARY UNCTAD has sought to fulfil four roles in respect of monetary and financial issues: as forum for dialogue and negotiation, honest broker, promoter of concepts and approaches, and source of technical assistance. ... -
Technology in UNCTAD; 1970 to 1984
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1984)SUMMARY Since 1970, when UNCTAD's technology programme got off the ground, there has been an enormous change in developing countries' attitude to technology policy. The transfer of technology and development of technological ... -
Development Cooperation after UNCTAD VI: aspects of the intellectual task ahead
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1984)SUMMARY The international community's failure at UNCTAD VI in 1983 to agree on a programme to promote world recovery carries some lessons for the future. While the interdependence of northern and southern economies is ... -
Domestic Policy and International Structural Reform
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1984)SUMMARY The domestic economic policies of developing as well as developed countries are part of the environment shaping international economic structures. Selective changes in these policies could bring about a modest ... -
Editorial
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1984)SUMMARY Until the sixties, cross?national educational research was uncontroversial but latterly, unwelcome trends have emerged: ‘dependence’ on the part of the developing countries and a kind of intellectual imperialism ... -
Some Fundamental Considerations for Educational Research with and in Developing Countries
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1984)SUMMARY How can the essential interdependence of the countries of the world in the twentieth century — the growth of ‘one world’ — be reconciled with preserving each country's cultural identity? Educational research must ... -
Educational Research on the Third World or with the Third World: a view from the South
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1984)SUMMARY The various undesirable approaches to research by foreign researchers in developing countries can be characterised as ‘turn?key’, ‘laboratory’, and ‘ivory tower’. In general, funding sources may dictate research ... -
North-South Collaborative Research in Education
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1984)SUMMARY The nature of North?South collaboration on educational research is heavily influenced by the existence of external education aid projects in the Third World. Donors require evaluations of projects: they are torn ... -
Educational Research and Developing Countries; facts, figures and some conceptual approaches for analysing interactions between funding, products and users
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1984)SUMMARY Educational research in the development context (ERDC) is the product of various kinds of international interactions and negotiations. These provide a typology of such research: disciplinary, instrumental, action, ... -
Transpositions from Research into Policy and Practice: possibilities for foreign researchers
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1984)SUMMARY The stereotypical view of the relationship between researchers and policy makers is that there is a generation?wide gap which is hard to bridge. Perhaps the best remedy, for research on education in developing ... -
Current Research Projects on Educational Problems of Third World Countries: a survey among German educationists
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1984)SUMMARY German developing country educational research was surveyed through a questionnaire to researchers. The research covered a wide range, both geographically and in terms of educational sector. Projects tend to be ... -
Recent Educational Research on Developing Countries by German Researchers: a survey of the literature
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1984)SUMMARY This article presents a survey of German educational research on developing countries based on the published literature. A predominant optimism about the role of education in development, based on American ... -
Research on Education in Developing Countries: an inventory of Dutch projects and programmes
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1984)SUMMARY The article surveys current Dutch research in the field, classifying it by theme, source of finance, and type of collaboration involved. Comment is then made on some of the concrete problems of research procedure. ... -
The Failure of Ethics in Practice: cultural and institutional barriers of a research project in Venezuela
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1984)SUMMARY This article describes in concrete detail the problems and difficulties — described in theory elsewhere — which can be experienced in collaborative research with developing countries. Starting with clear ideals, ... -
Recent and Current Educational Research with and in Developing Countries by Researchers from Britain
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1984)SUMMARY A survey of British work on education in developing countries lists projects under a number of headings — from ‘qualifications and job selection’, to ‘small countries’, and ‘in service training’. The article ends ... -
Problems of Technical Cooperation in Educational Research: reflections on a Colombian/Dutch research programme
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1984)SUMMARY This article is a sub|ective assessment by the Dutch researchers in a collaborative project It describes the chronology, and comments on relationships between Dutch and Colombian project coordinators, research ...