October 1979
Issue No. 080
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Development's brighter side
As never before, 800 million people today have nothing to lose but their chains and a world to win.
The Search for Success
Is there any such thing as successful development, and who should define it? MAGGIE BLACK describes the search, details some of the obstacles and comes through breathless but optimistic.
Successful Developments in the Third World - The Facts
A survey of the substantial progress by the Third World in the education, the health and the life expectancy of its people.
Plain tales of development
Success, like beauty is in eyes of the beholder. Three very different countries who can claim some measure of success are looked at by three very different correspondents: LAOS by a special correspondent, CUBA by RONALD BUCHANAN, TAIWAN by RICHARD HANSON
RIUS: Method in his madness
‘I want to read and write,’ a Brazilian peasant once said, so that I can stop being the shadow of other people.’ Communication is essential to self-education and self-reliance. PETER STALKER profiles RIUS, a radical Mexican cartoonist.
famille et developpement - real people, real information
STEWART McBRIDE reports on FAMILLE ET DEVELOPPEMENT, a new magazine backed by the Canadian International Development Research Centre.
All change: two successful revolutions
This year two apparently firmly-rooted dictatorships has been overthrown by popular movements, one in Iran, the other in Nicaragua. Reports on: THE SANDINISTAS by EDUARDO CRAWLEY and IRAN by VAHE PETROSSIAN
Small, gifted... and they work
Some of developments most encouraging success stories are relatively small-scale. But they succeed because they involve people and because they are highly practical. MARCUS THOMPSON looks at a project in India and MAGGIE BLACK visits one in Kenya.
Student Unrest
by Dexter Tiranti
Where have all the flower children gone?
by Richard Kazis
Canadians for Nicaragua
by Roger Rolfe
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