People
The goal of economic development is to improve the well-being of people. Health for all is not just a by-product of development. It is a primary lever for initiating the development process itself...
Features
Food
The task of feeding everyone adequately calls for an investment in the agriculture of developing countries of more than 100 billion. Without a fairer distribution of income many will still go hungry...
Water
An adequate supply for agriculture, industry and people depends on human intervention in the water cycle and the development of water resources not only on the surface but also in the ground...
Energy
The future growth in the global demand for energy will come mainly from the less developed countries. If the demand is to be satisfied, the transfer of technology from the developed countries is essential...
The Economic Development of China
In this fast-growing poor country a fourth of mankind appears to be secure against famine and epidemic disease. The decline in the birth rate promises a stable population by the year 2000...
The Economic Development of India
Although it has the largest mass of poverty, India has made gains in industrialization and the modernization of agriculture. Inequity in distribution and uncertainty in management leave the issue in doubt...
The Economic Development of Tanzania
One of the poorest countries in the world, this African nation has set out to become a modern industrial state that preserves the traditional values of ujamaa: society as extended family...
The Economic Development of Mexico
A number of indicators make it easy to mistake Mexico for a developed country. Actually its development is highly unbalanced, with most of its population impoverished, poorly educated and underemployed...
The World Economy of the Year 2000
The first input-output model of the world economy suggests how a system of international economic relations that features a partial disarmament could narrow the gap between the rich and the poor...
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