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The seminar was opened by Professor Salustiano del Campo, who recalled the founding principles of the United Nations University: “to understand the causes and provide solutions for the world’s principal problems, increasing the practical impact of research in every country and raising the level of collaboration between scholars and scientists across the world”. He introduced the work of the UNU to scholars present.
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C. A. Amin, The Modernisation of Poverty: a study in the Political Economy of Growth in Nine Arab Countries, 1945–70 (Leiden, 1974).
Paul Harrison, ‘How the Third World is now beginning to help itself’, in The Sunday Times (London) 24 August 1980.
Peter Hazlehurst, ‘The place of Japan in the world today and the triumph of its economy’, in The Times (London) 21–24 July 1980.
Ibid., 24 July 1980.
A. Abdel Malek, ‘On the dialectics of time’, in Social Dialectics, 1981.
B. de Jouvenel, ‘Le repas du monde’, in Le Monde (Paris) 4 September 1980. Cf. also the recent discussions at the UN Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) in Rome, reported by
M. Champenois, ‘Quand le monde pauvre entrera dans la ville’, in Le Monde, 9 September 1980.
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del Campo, S., Abdel-Malek, A. (1984). Opening Addresses. In: Gonzalez, M., del Urbano, S.C., Mesa, R. (eds) Economy and Society in the Transformation of the World. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07247-7_2
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