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Development success

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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.

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.

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.

Development's brighter side

As never before, 800 million people today have nothing to lose but their chains and a world to win.

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

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.

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.

Whose World is the World?

A poster set, published by Poster-Film Collective

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Up With People

by Alf McCreary

Oil and World Power

by Peter R. Odell

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Where have all the flower children gone?

by Richard Kazis

Canadians for Nicaragua

by Roger Rolfe

Student Unrest

by Dexter Tiranti

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

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