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From the Outside Looking in: Experiences in ‘Barefoot Economics’, by Manfred A Max-Neef. Uppsala, 1982, 208 pp. This book contains two Latin American case studies, ‘Horizontal Communication for Peasants’ Participation and Self-reliance’ and ‘Revitalization of Small Cities for Self-reliance’. (Out of stock) Reprinted 1992 by Zed Books Ltd, 57 Caledonian Road, London N1 9BU, UK, […]

This study, intended as companion to Development Dialogue issue no.1990:1-2, deals with the FAO and various ways its leaders have been chosen.

This is a French translation issue no. 1990:1-2: “A World in Need of Leadership: Tomorrow’s United Nations”.

This is a Spanish translation issue no. 1990:1-2: “A World in Need of Leadership: Tomorrow’s United Nations”.

Issue no.1989:2 (30) of Development Dialogue discusses the need for a new international information order to meed demands for the democratisation of communications.

Issue no.1989:1 (29) of Development Dialogue concentrates the sectoral aspects of the alternative development strategies advocated in this seminal document.

Issue no.1988:1-2 (28) of Development Dialogue challenges convention by presenting the negative socio-economic implications of new biotechniques.

‘Nations emerging from long foreign rule generally lack an independent administrative tradition and a social structure within which it is easy to build a class of national administrators… It is true that in some of the countries concerned, the former administering authority has bequeathed a valuable legacy in the form of an efficient administrative apparatus […]