Development of Societies: The Next Twenty-Five Years

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Speeches Given During the Conference

   1. Front Matter

      Pages xv-xv

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   2. Opening speech of the Conference

      • R. De Moor

      Pages 1-3

   3. Speech on the occasion of his installation as an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Social Studies

      • R. Prebisch

      Pages 5-8

   4. Speech on the occasion of his installation as an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Social Studies

      • H. W. Singer

      Pages 9-16

   5. Reflections by a Minister on development problems(speech given on the Opening Day of the Conference)

      • J. Pronk

      Pages 17-20

   6. Reflections by a Civil Servant on development problems (speech given on the Closing Day of the Conference)

      • L. H. J. B. Van Gorkom

      Pages 21-27

3. Rapporteurs’ Comments on Group Discussions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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   2. Group A: Development and Dependence

      • B. Van Arkadie

      Pages 31-33

   3. Group B: Perspectives and Strategies for the Rural Poor

      • D. Dunham

      Pages 34-37

   4. Group C: Employment, Mobilization and Participation

      • K. Jansen

      Pages 38-41

   5. Group D: Restructuring Industrial Societies and the New Economic World Order

      • A. Van De Laar

      Pages 42-45

   6. Open Group: The Past and Future of Development Studies

      • G. Van Benthem van den Bergh

      Pages 46-50

4. A Selection of the Papers Presented at the Conference

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51

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   2. Balance Carried Forward

      • C. A. O. Van Nieuwenhuijze

      Pages 53-71

   3. A Reconsideration of Economic Development Theories 1952–77

      • L. J. Zimmerman

      Pages 72-85

   4. Aid to the Poor — or Betting on the poor?

      • W. F. Wertheim

      Pages 86-102

   5. The Burden of Land Reform: An Asian Model Land Reform Re-Analysed

      • R. Apthorpe

      Pages 103-120

   6. The Technology, the System and the Poor: The Case of the New Cereal Varieties

      • M. Lipton

      Pages 121-135

   7. Urban Poverty and Employment in Latin America: Guidelines for Action

      • V. E. Tokman

      Pages 136-159

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.

• Civil Servant
• Nation
• adjustment
• cooperation
• election
• employment
• growth
• income
• knowledge
• poverty
• reform
• restructuring
• state
• strategy
• women

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