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2. Section Meetings, October 22: The Future of Research in Newly Independent States, Inter-Group Relations in African Culture, Contributed Papers
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- 1961
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3. The Land Is Our Mother. A Summary, Statewide Indian Land Use and Policy Meeting (Crow Agency, Montana, November 14-15, 1974).
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Montana State Univ., Bozeman. Cooperative Extension Service. and Crow Land and Livestock Association, MT.
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Summarized in this brief report are proceedings of the Statewide Indian Land Use Policy Meeting, a meeting planned by American Indians in response to their perceptions of constraints on effective management of Indian lands and one which drew 135 people, including representatives from every reservation in Montana and Wyoming. This booklet outlines: (1) concerns and situations which led to the meeting; (2) activities prior to the meeting; (3) pertinent participant comments; (4) follow-up activities; (5) resolutions; and (6) participant and resource staff names and affiliations. Representative statements are reported covering such issues as: Indian land philosophy; problems of urban relocation and imported reservation industry; responsibilities of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian people; loss of Indian lands via individual sales; Indian legal needs; tribal court capabilities; zoning; Indian jurisdiction; agricultural development; credit; Indian representation in government agencies; water rights; soil surveys; land use ordinances; policy implementation plans, etc. The resolutions which are reported call for Indian jurisdiction over lands within the boundaries of Indian reservations and the exchange of state school lands for public domain lands outside the reservation or legislation leading to Indian control over state school lands within reservation boundaries. (JC)
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- 1974
4. Designing Education for the Future. Number 2, Implications for Education of Prospective Changes in Society.
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Designing Education for the Future, Denver, CO., Morphet, Edgar L., and Ryan, Charles O.
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In an effort to determine the major implications of projected social change, the Designing Education For The Future Project had leading educational authorities prepare 16 papers and 4 supplementary statements for its second conference. These papers were directed primarily towards expanding the educational implications of those papers presented in the first conference, which dealt with the general prospective societal changes of the 1980's. Among areas discussed were scope and organization of education, projected educational programs, compensatory education, community colleges, adult education, higher education, and research and development. Related documents are RC 000 348, RC 000 359, and ED 018 008. (DK)
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- 1967
5. Designing Education for the Future No. 1, Prospective Changes in Society by 1980.
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Designing Education for the Future, Denver, CO., Morphet, Edgar L., and Ryan, Charles O.
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In an effort to direct attention to some of the most significant prospective changes in society by 1980, the Designing Education For The Future Project commissioned 15 papers for its first conference. While attention was directed primarily to changes in society, most authors indicated certain implications for education, and made particular reference to the Rocky Mountain states. Areas considered included natural resources, population trends, medical sciences, economic developments, political developments, urban development, communications, and other major problems of the 1980's. Related documents are RC 000 350, RC 000 348, and ED 018 008. (DK)
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- 1967
6. The Environmental Crisis in the Arctic
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Muir, Dalton
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Paper read at the inaugural meeting of the Canadian Nature Federation, September 18, 1971; and reprinted from The Blue Jay,'' v29, n4 (December 1971). (FF)
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- 1972
7. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AS DEVELOPMENT FACTORS.
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United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). and LENGYEL, PETER
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PROCEEDINGS FROM A MEETING OF UNESCO'S ADVISORY COUNCIL TO ITS OFFICE OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND ITS DIVISION OF SCIENCE POLICY ARE REPORTED. THE CENTRAL THEME OF THE CONFERENCE IS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. AN INTRODUCTORY PAPER DEALS WITH RESOURCES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, THE INFLUENCE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ON DEVELOPMENT, AND ECONOMIC PLANNING IN RELATION TO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. A SECOND PAPER DISCUSSES CURRENT PROBLEMS IN THE UTILIZATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES IN LATIN AMERICA. THE SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS INVOLVED IN THE INTRODUCTION OF THE APPLICATIONS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INTO THE POPULATIONS OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ARE CONSIDERED IN A THIRD PAPER. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN FOUR EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ARE DESCRIBED IN A SERIES OF CASE STUDIES. MOST OF THE PAPERS INCLUDE BIBLIOGRAPHIES. THIS DOCUMENT IS AVAILABLE AS THE "INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNAL," VOLUME 18, NUMBER 3, 1966 FROM UNESCO PUBLICATIONS CENTER, 317 EAST 34 STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10016, 468 PAGES, FOR $2.00. (AG)
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- 1966
8. THE SOCIETY AND THE COMMONWEALTH
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Lindsay, Harry
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- 1948
9. DISCUSSION.
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Reubens, Edwin P.
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ECONOMIC development ,ECONOMICS ,NATURAL resources ,SCARCITY ,INTERNATIONAL cooperation ,CENTRAL economic planning ,NATIONALISM - Abstract
This article discusses various papers on economic developments, which were published in the May 1, 1953 issue of the journal "American Economic Review." The basic difficulty in the theory of economic development is the necessity of dealing with behavioral relations and not merely logical deductions from simple assumptions. There is widespread agreement on a minimal definition of economic growth as an increase in national product per capita. Another vital conceptual element in a theory of economic development would be an emphasis on the scarcity of resources. Since it is not possible to pursue all lines, allocating enough resources to all four categories to ensure adequate change, the problem is to make sure that a given resource allocation to any one of the four variables also provides enough support to the other three to ensure sustained and cumulative progress. In this shrinking world it is equally important to lay stress upon the values of international co-operation and interdependence. Such a viewpoint may run counter to prevalent currents of nationalism and national economic planning.
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- 1953
10. Innovative Responses to Materials Shortages.
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Rosenberg, Nathan
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NATURAL resources ,ECONOMIC development ,ECONOMIC conditions of developed countries ,TECHNOLOGICAL innovations ,ECONOMIC history ,ECONOMICS - Abstract
This paper deals with the adequacy of natural resource supplies to support an indefinite continuation of high rates of economic growth in advanced industrial economies. This paper is inspired by a recent spate of apocalyptic literature purporting to show that natural resource constraints impose an insuperable obstacle to such growth. The author suggests that this extreme pessimism is unwarranted because it attaches insufficient weight to an impressive array of adaptive mechanisms through which a market economy responds to shifting patterns of resource scarcity. Most important, he argues that technological change is, in the long run, the most powerful mechanism of response. The purpose of the author's recourse to history is to provide some insight into the manner in which economies possessed of a high degree of technological versatility have adapted to changing patterns of resource scarcities. The author notes that arguments drawn from the past history of countries which have demonstrated a high degree of technological innovativeness are not likely to be directly applicable to countries where such skills and talents have been notably lacking. The author believes that history can an insuperable obstacle to such growth.
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- 1973
11. Regional Economic Growth: Some Conceptual Aspects.
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Thomas, Morgan D.
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REGIONAL economics ,ECONOMIC development ,ECONOMIC indicators ,ELASTICITY (Economics) ,NATURAL resources ,FACTORS of production ,HUMAN behavior - Abstract
This article discusses some conceptual aspect of regional economic growth. One way to know the reason why regional economic growth takes place is to examine the explanatory content of its principal theories, the development stages and the export base theories. This paper proposes to use elements from the development stages and the export base theories for the construction of a conceptual framework to channel these thoughts and investigations. Hopefully, insights may then be generated to contribute to better theory development. In the conceptual framework outlined, attention is focused on the form and nature of relationships between phenomena associated with regional economic growth. Important explanatory concepts, such as income elasticity of demand and associated Engel functions or curves for individual products and regional trade, are examined. A growth of output per person may be viewed as depending partly on the natural resources available in terms of their quality, quantity, cost, and allocation and partly on human behavior.
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- 1969
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12. PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN LATIN AMERICA.
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Bruton, Henry J.
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GROSS domestic product ,ECONOMIC development ,LATIN American economy ,CAPITAL ,PRODUCTION (Economic theory) ,INDUSTRIAL productivity ,NATURAL resources ,ECONOMIC demand ,DEVELOPED countries - Abstract
The purpose of the present paper is to examine the growth of Gross Domestic Product in five Latin American countries (LAC), Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico in the period 1940-1964 in terms of hypotheses about possible explanations of the residual source of growth in these countries. The development and appraisal of various hypotheses considered is based on a comparison of the rate of growth of productivity among the several Latin American countries and a comparison between these countries and a group of more economically advanced countries. For LAC, it is convincing that the underutilization is not due to inadequate demand. It is therefore more fruitful to assume that the ability to exploit capacity is an important factor in potential output and that changing utilization is a key variable explaining productivity in LAC. Also evidence has been presented which leads to the conclusion that changes in the rate of growth of productivity in LAC could, in periods after 1945, be accounted for largely by the ability of LAC to utilize all its available resources.
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- 1967
13. LATIN AMERICA VERSUS THE UNITED STATES.
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Mosk, Sanford A.
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ECONOMIC development ,UNITED States economy ,LANDOWNERS ,LATIN American economy ,NATURAL resources ,SOCIAL structure ,ECONOMIC policy - Abstract
The article focuses on differences in economic development between the United States and Latin America. The ownership of a landed estate in colonial Latin America was a source of wealth and was a mark of social distinction. From the ranks of the landed families came many of the leading civilian officials, the high army officers, and prominent church authorities. It was the landed aristocracy that comprised the top layer of the social structure in colonial Latin America. In Latin America, a strong impulse was given to the commercialization of economic life. In the United States, the system of small landholdings which took hold during the colonial period was continued and extended after independence through the disposal of public domain by the federal government. The wide distribution of land ownership in the United States epitomizes the dominant middle-class character of American social organization. The broad middle-class market in this country was a potent force in the development of mass production methods in manufacturing. Social system of the United States attracted immigrants, adding their manpower and skills to the productive capacity of the country. No country in Latin America has had such a fine combination of physical resources and conditions to work with as the United States.
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- 1951
14. The Metropolis and the Transformation of Resources.
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Meier, Richard L.
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ECONOMIC development ,QUANTITATIVE research ,INDUSTRIALIZATION ,METROPOLITAN areas ,NATURAL resources ,SOCIAL change ,SCARCITY ,SOCIAL evolution - Abstract
The article focuses on the transformation of resources in a modern metropolis in the U.S. It discusses the image of the downtown as an instrument for industrialization. However, alteration of resources should be considered in realizing such improvements in every city. Despite the sacrifices, the urge of realizing such development in metropolis area should continue to perform even when its environment is already populated with various cultural changes. In such, metropolis is being used as an option to menace resource scarcity and depletion. Nevertheless, the high demand of finding a solution in dealing the issue of critical resource has been discussed.
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- 1970
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15. The Sun and Foreign Policy.
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Stead, William H.
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SOLAR energy ,RENEWABLE energy sources ,NATURAL resources ,POWER resources ,SOLAR technology ,NUCLEAR energy ,ECONOMIC development ,INDUSTRIALIZATION ,DEVELOPING countries - Abstract
The article focuses on the author's perspective on the suggestion that the economically underdeveloped nations should be giving more attention to solar energy development and not concentrating all their hopes on atomic energy. Because of the availability of other energy resources at lower cost, solar energy applications are only of marginal significance in the foreseeable future in the industrialized nations. The author suggests that solar energy development programs should be pushed through by United Nations' facilities and the U.S. government for the greatest benefit of the people who are striving for economic and social betterment.
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- 1957
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16. Republic up in the Air.
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GOVERNMENT ownership ,ECONOMIC development - Abstract
The article reports on the establishment by the Bolivian government of Bolivian Mining Corp. in December 1952. Its establishment was considered an act of nationalization in Latin America, strengthening the nationalist government of Bolivian President Victor Paz Estenssoro. According to the article, the tin industry had a significance to the economic development in Bolivia.
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- 1952
17. Waste--The Future of Prosperity.
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Burke, Kenneth
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NATURAL resources ,ECONOMIC development ,FACTORS of production ,DIVORCE ,INDUSTRIALIZATION ,DRINKING water laws ,WAR ,INDUSTRIAL productivity ,BEVERAGES ,PRISONS - Abstract
Focuses on the Theory of the Economic Value of Waste, given by Henry Ford. Emphasis on the maximum use of natural resources; Role of wars to rebuild the economy of a nation; Ways which can be used to increase production; Role of the divorce rate and immigration in increasing production; Stress on the prohibition of the use of water for drinking purposes; Impact of the prohibition on criminal activities of the people; Role of increased consumption of manufactured beverages in providing employment to a greater number of people; Suggestion to build more prisons in States; Role of the industrial progress in the development of a nation.
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- 1930
18. Restraints and the Allocation of Resources
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Kennedy, Charles
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- 1968
19. An Interpretation of Economic Backwardness
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Myint, H.
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- 1954
20. Johnson's grand design.
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GOVERNMENT programs ,ECONOMIC development ,NATURAL resources ,MEDICAL care for older people ,EDUCATIONAL finance ,BIRTH control - Abstract
The article focuses on the program that is being developed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson to emphasize development and natural resources. It says that Johnson ordered the U.S. Congress to tackle the program on the comprehensive plan for medical care for the elderly. It states that Johnson proposed a 1.5 billion dollar program that will fund education in impoverished areas. It also mentions that the Johnson endorsed birth control to deal with the explosion of world population.
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- 1965
21. Economic Growth and Environmental Quality are Compatible.
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Barnett, Harold J.
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ECONOMIC development ,ENVIRONMENTAL quality ,ENVIRONMENTAL degradation ,ENVIRONMENTAL protection ,NATURAL resources ,FACTORS of production - Abstract
Man's relationship to the natural environment and nature's influence upon human life are among the oldest topics of speculation. Until modern times the major reason for concern was the prospect of "diminishing returns." It was thought that population and economic growth would press against natural resource limits, and that economic welfare would fall to subsistence levels. !n modern times in developed nations the prospect of "diminishing returns" has been avoided. Population increase has abated to rates which promise stability in population numbers. Technology, capital accumulation, and improvements in labor force have yielded "increasing returns." Per capita output grows at 2 or 3 % per year. The modern concern is quality of environment and quality of life. The technology, industrialization and agglomeration which have yielded increasing returns of goods per capita have side effects. These are pollution and crowding, increased needs for public goods, expanded monopoly in the market places, and dilemmas of choice from affluence. The task for modem societies is to bend their enlarged technology and productive power to improving quality of environment and, more generally, quality of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1974
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22. ECONOMIC INTERDEPENDENCE, PRESENT AND FUTURE.
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Nadler, Marcus
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ECONOMIC development ,INTERNATIONAL economic relations ,CAPITAL movements ,COST of living ,LABOR mobility ,NATURAL resources ,CONSUMPTION (Economics) ,ECONOMIC indicators ,IMPORTS - Abstract
An analysis of actual economic interdependence will endeavor to find out how far the process of economic self sufficiency has gone, how far it may be expected to go before it causes too great a pressure on the standard of living of various countries, and how much regimentation it would entail. People are living in an age in which many governments control the economic forces to an unprecedented degree and utilize them to make their countries as far as possible economically self sufficient. Today people witness great nations using all their energies and resources to create substitutes in order to reduce imports. If the tendencies which at present prevail in a large part of the world should continue, people have before them the vision not only of some undernourished nations with low standards of living but also regimentation of production and consumption, and of whole populations turned into automatons whose tastes of food, clothing, and entertainment are dictated by the government or the party in power.
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- 1937
23. Some Social and Economic Aspects of Marine Resource Development .
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Fischer, David W.
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MARINE resources ,NATURAL resources ,MARINE biology ,ECONOMIC development ,PRODUCTION (Economic theory) ,ECONOMIC demand ,DEVELOPED countries - Abstract
THE OCEANS yield an economic surplus. Where and how this surplus is deployed sets the stage for further development. Better knowledge of the oceans will be immaterial if market influences and institutions supporting it are not changed to allow further participation by others in the oceans' surplus. The increased international interest in the oceans opens the possibility of a qualitative change as well as a quantitative change. There is no reason to be satisfied with the production pattern emanating from the traditional political-economic relations. Mass production while technologically and economically sound places a premium on conformity of demand. The diversities inherent in marine resource development denote a demand spectrum ranging from the sophisticated industrial societies of the West to the simple island peoples of the Pacific depending on marine resources for their basic sustenance. Mass production will not provide the base for a viable continuance of these latter groups without a continuing inducement to change the institutions governing the social structure of these peoples. Is the social disruption and possible destruction of a people worth the extra minerals or fisheries exploited for an industrial economy? Will communist marine-oriented nations accept the private development orientation of the capitalist nations? Such questions are the "stuff" that must be faced in the creation of the institutional structure for undergirding and supporting the development of the oceans. The problems of terrestrial resource development such as its uneven development pattern, concentration of productive processes and dilution of environmental quality have generated rising social turmoil. The need for more markets and raw materials in spatially separated wealthy countries has allowed the old development forces to continue with little change. Resource development of the oceans will place capitalist, socialist, and communist States together in a common property resource setting for a unique chance to develop an operational form for a new institutional structure. This ethical production and distribution mix may not replace our own capitalist structure but it may supplement that structure with the benefits of the other systems all within tile common bond of marine resource development. In other words, the pragmatic necessity for working out the development of the world's oceans can provide the arena for forming a rigorously and ethically constructed framework of social welfare that will account for other social structures, development levels and qualitative dimensions. To ignore the promise of this pragmatic effort is to leave all to random events in a context of severe nationalism. What will the record show after the present official decade of marine resource development? Will a fully developed ocean be one with nothing in it, one unfit for anything? The marine life and the marine environment are international livestock on an international range. Will all the people of the world be able to use the oceans over and over again? Or is the imminent death of Lake Erie the forerunner to the death of the world's marine resources? The oceans include the last large resource reservoir readily available. Their inherent qualities provide a chance to innovate socially for the benefit of all mankind. The important problem is posed by the technical efficiencies which must operate within a structure creating distribution inefficiences. Development must divest itself of these distribution inefficiencies by some structural change; it cannot continue to be concerned solely with production. The potential successes of marine resource development are too important to allow a set of social failures to be created. Mere resource development is no goal. A synthesis is needed of the essence of resource development together with the restructuring of its ownership and operation so as to serve the vast potential clientele base from which it would derive its support and which would direct its thrust. Can the development of marine resources rise to the challenge of being a unifier rather than a separator of mankind? The coming decade will pro- vide the answer (19). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1973
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24. THE NEW ECONOMY AND THE MACHINE.
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Peck, Harvey W.
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ECONOMIC development ,INVESTMENTS ,NATURAL resources ,TECHNOLOGICAL innovations ,POPULATION - Abstract
The article comments on the economic development of the U.S. The basis for expansion in an economy as a whole, the general conditions of successful investment, are undeveloped natural resources, a growing population and technological advance. The reasons for the rapid economic development of North America up to the first world war were the excellent climate, the vast supply of land, minerals and water power, and the settlement of the country by colonists from those regions of the earth where the industrial arts were most advanced. The improved industrial methods applicable to the rich resources of the new world were probably the causal factor in the rapid growth of population. And population growth, if it coincides with new and free or cheap land, is a factor making for investment opportunities. Thus the growth and westward migration of the American people meant an expanding market for building materials and equipment for farms, mines, and transportation systems. Population growth and technology react on each other.
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- 1943
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25. HOW TO RAISE THE HIGH-EMPLOYMENT GROWTH RATE BY ONE PERCENTAGE POINT.
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Denison, Edward F.
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EMPLOYMENT ,GROWTH rate ,UNITED States economy ,NATIONAL income ,PRICE indexes ,ECONOMIC development ,MARKET prices ,NATURAL resources ,EXCISE tax - Abstract
The article presents a discussion related to altering the growth of the economy's productive potential, when success in maintaining fairly full utilization of labor and other resources is assumed. It is also necessary to find ways to validate the high-employment assumption, but that is outside the present discussion. The article is also concerned with ways to raise the growth rate of real national income or product. Certain characteristics of these output measures somewhat limit the ways available to raise their growth rate. They preclude raising the growth rate by shifting resources so as to produce things that are more urgently wanted, for example, by eliminating distortions in the pattern of output introduced by excise taxes, monopoly or farm programs. Again, the treatment of quality change in the price indexes bars raising the future high-employment growth rate of measured output by developing new or better final products more rapidly. The author uses index of real national income, which is the same thing as the index of real net national product except that components are weighted by factor cost rather than market price, in order to measure economic growth.
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- 1962
26. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP.
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Papanex, Gustav F.
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP ,ECONOMIC development ,NATURAL resources ,DECISION making ,ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc. ,CAPITAL - Abstract
The article deals with the development of entrepreneurship. Discussion of economic development, since the revival of interest in the late forties, almost invariably starts with the acknowledgement that economic growth depends on a complex of interrelated factors. With this out of the way, the tendency is to focus on a single key factor not the only, but the most important, determinant of growth. The emphasis at various times and by various authors has been on technical knowledge, ideological fervor, natural resources, governmental organization, motives and attitudes, and capital. Emphasis has recently shifted to the key role of decision-making innovators, particularly in industry-in a word, entrepreneurs. Stress on the importance of entrepreneurs hardly qualifies one as innovator in economics. The industrial entrepreneur is a distinct personality type. At the least, he must believe that change is possible and can be brought about by individuals, and he must be motivated to action bringing it about.
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- 1962
27. FACTORS IN THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF GUATEMALA.
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Britnell, G. E.
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GUATEMALAN economy ,ECONOMIC development ,NATURAL resources ,MINES & mineral resources ,INTERNATIONAL trade ,AGRICULTURE - Abstract
Any analysis of the natural resources of Guatemala at once suggests an underdeveloped economy. Fertile volcanic soils, extensive hardwood forests, promising mineral deposits and hydroelectric potential may readily be counted as blessings to be turned to good economic account. There are grounds for believing that the revolution of 1944, which brought to power the rough, Latin-American equivalent of a socialist government, may have marked the beginning of a new epoch in the development of Guatemala, although reservations respecting certain innovations. Guatemala possesses the essential prerequisites for a diversified and abundant agriculture in rich soils, a wide variety of climates resulting from the range of altitudes and easily accessible foreign markets. The larger, long-run problem of integrating the population into a single economy calls for a carefully coordinated program, to be undertaken simultaneously with the short-run program, to improve education, health and nutrition as well as methods of production, to find new occupations for the Indian population of the highlands and to prepare its partial resettlement on better lands.
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- 1953
28. The Environmental Sciences and Economic Development.
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Farmer, B. H.
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NATURAL resources ,AGRICULTURAL development projects ,ECONOMIC development - Abstract
Focuses on the relationship of the studies of natural resources and the appraisal of agricultural development projects. Examination of several natural resource projects; Benefits and costs of agricultural development projects; Issues surrounding economic development.
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- 1971
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29. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WITH SURPLUS LABOUR: FURTHER COMPLICATIONS SUGGESTED BY CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN EXPERIENCE.
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BERRY, SARA S.
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ECONOMIC development ,LABOR supply ,AFRICANS ,NATURAL resources ,IMPORTS ,CAPITAL intensive industries ,UNEMPLOYMENT ,MATHEMATICAL models of economics ,ECONOMIC conditions in Africa - Published
- 1970
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30. Wildlife Conservation in Uganda in Relation to Economic Development.
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Hellmann, Robert A.
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WILDLIFE conservation ,ECONOMIC development ,NATIONAL parks & reserves ,ECOLOGY ,WILDLIFE resources ,NATURAL resources ,TOURISM ,ENVIRONMENTAL sciences - Abstract
The article focuses on the importance of wildlife conservation in Uganda for boosting economic development. It informs that popular African attitude toward the wildlife resources is changing and educated Africans are realizing the value of wildlife as a tourist attraction. It is stated that pride regarding national parks is also developing. It is maintained that a general understanding among Ugandans of some basic principles of the science of ecology is necessary. It is advised that a biological survey has to be made of each major region of the country in order to determine the most promising reserve areas. It is mentioned that Uganda attracts tourists because of its climate, scenery, and wildlife. The tourism industry benefits Uganda by providing support for local businesses.
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- 1967
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31. Some Aspects of River Utilization in Arid Areas:.
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Hirsch, Abraham M.
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RIVERS ,ECONOMIC competition ,NATURAL resources ,PETROLEUM ,SOCIAL scientists ,ECONOMIC development - Abstract
This article presents information related to some aspects of river utilization in arid areas. Hydroeconomics is the economics of water supply and concerns itself with the economic patterns surrounding competition for the most basic natural resource. Unlike the economics of other mineral resources, such as petroleum and coal, iron and other ores, water has but recently become the object of concerted attention by economists and other social scientists. The world, with its growing population and its general surge toward economic development, is rapidly attaining its water frontier-the point at which only marginal resources of water remain available and unappropriated. With water and scientific agriculture, marginal lands can be coaxed to yield economically advantageous food supplies. Improvements in hydro-technical methods may rationalize water utilization to make the most of available water; but no economic process has yet been found to extend the water frontier, although optimistic reports indicate that research now under way may lead to the economical development of "artificial water" processes.
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- 1961
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32. Natural Resources and Economic Growth (Book).
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Winter Jr., Sidney G.
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ECONOMIC development ,NATURAL resources ,NONFICTION - Abstract
Reviews the book "Natural Resources and Economic Growth," edited by Joseph J. Spengler.
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- 1962
33. ALASKA: SYMBOL, REALITY, AND HOPE.
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WEEDEN, ROBERT B.
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NATURAL history ,INDUSTRIALIZATION ,SOCIAL goals ,ECONOMIC development ,ENVIRONMENTAL management ,OIL spill management ,NATURAL resources ,POPULATION policy - Abstract
The article discusses the deplorable status of Alaska as well as provides suggestions on how to develop new ways to prepare for a better future to the country. According to the article, the nation has been totally wrecked with beaches being spilled with oil, earthmoving equipments rumbling the North Slope and a completely jaded city. Several writers have featured the region as a new place, having a new era of burgeoning population, booming industry as well as expanding transportation nets. The author relates that the country could regulate industrialization, develop a population policy as well as restrict the establishment of dams and roads if it wishes to preserve its natural resources and few places where natural science is still within reach.
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- 1970
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