Development of Societies: The Next Twenty-Five Years: Proceedings of the ISS 25th Anniversary Conference The Hague, December 1977 (Institute of Social ... Series on Development of Societies Book 5)

This volume is the product of a conference on the theme 'Development - the Next Twenty-five Years' which the Institute of Social Studies held in Decem­ ber 1977 to mark its own twenty-fifth anniversaryas a centre of development studies. We felt it appropriate at that point in time to caU together specialists from all over the world in an attempt to assess the 'state of play' in our field as we move into the last quarter of the twentieth century. 1 For several days, therefore, the Institute's new building house d a remarkable concentration of knowledge and experience concerning the problems of the so-calle d less­ developed countries, drawn from all over the world. Although it was inevitable that the participants should represent the past (and it was several times re­ marked that, in that sense, there were too few women present), the earnest and sometimes heated discussions looked to the future as much as to what had happened in the last twenty-five years. As the discussions proceeded, three things became apparent. Firstly , although the papers submitted did not fully reveal it, the ongoing debate between radicals and moderates, those who saw possibilities of change only basically through a direct break with existing structures and those who felt change possibIe within them, is by no means at an end. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Front Matter....Pages xv-xv Opening speech of the Conference....Pages 1-3 Speech on the occasion of his installation as an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Social Studies....Pages 5-8 Speech on the occasion of his installation as an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Social Studies....Pages 9-16 Reflections by a Minister on development problems(speech given on the Opening Day of the Conference)....Pages 17-20 Reflections by a Civil Servant on development problems (speech given on the Closing Day of the Conference)....Pages 21-27 Front Matter....Pages 29-29 Group A: Development and Dependence....Pages 31-33 Group B: Perspectives and Strategies for the Rural Poor....Pages 34-37 Group C: Employment, Mobilization and Participation....Pages 38-41 Group D: Restructuring Industrial Societies and the New Economic World Order....Pages 42-45 Open Group: The Past and Future of Development Studies ....Pages 46-50 Front Matter....Pages 51-51 Balance Carried Forward....Pages 53-71 A Reconsideration of Economic Development Theories 1952–77....Pages 72-85 Aid to the Poor — or Betting on the poor?....Pages 86-102 The Burden of Land Reform: An Asian Model Land Reform Re-Analysed....Pages 103-120 The Technology, the System and the Poor: The Case of the New Cereal Varieties....Pages 121-135 Urban Poverty and Employment in Latin America: Guidelines for Action....Pages 136-159 Redistribution before Growth — A Strategy for Developing Countries....Pages 160-176 Restructuring the Economies of the Industrialized Countries: A Positive Sum Game?....Pages 177-191 The International Crisis: Adjustment Policies for Incomes and Employment....Pages 192-217 Development and Dependence: The Emerging Regional Division of Labour in Latin America....Pages 218-244 Front Matter....Pages 51-51 Perspectives in the Latin American Growth ‘Centres’....Pages 245-255 Development Cooperation: A Differentiated and Thematic Approach....Pages 256-265 Structural Aspects of Third World Trade: Some Trends and Some Prospects....Pages 266-289 Restructuring Industrialized Countries and the New International Order....Pages 290-303 Back Matter....Pages 305-307