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Mills, Miriam K. – 1983
This paper considers the potential utility of computer conferencing for the Third World. A brief description of an example of a computer conferencing system, the Electronic Information Exchange System (EIES) based at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, is provided. International discussions on telecommunications and some of the activities of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Developing Nations, Distance Education, International Organizations
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Hanson, John R., II – Journal of Economic Education, 1995
Contends that it is widely believed that cheap labor in poor countries attracts foreign investors. Asserts that historical evidence indicates that past patterns of direct foreign investment in poor countries are inconsistent with the cheap-labor argument. Includes two figures and one table. (CFR)
Descriptors: Capitalism, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Economic Change