The Bureau of Labor Statistics has updated its projections for the decade to reflect recent social, political, and economic development. Three scenarios provide the range of possible growth paths. (Author)

Explores the problems facing women in Third World and developing countries as progress takes place. Presents a view of the economic development and its differential impact on women and men. (Author/CK)

Sketches the history of the expansion of multinational advertising agencies. Then examines the growth, characteristics, and consequences of these agencies in an important region of the developing world, Latin America. (PD)

Discusses the relationship between literacy and occupation. Notes that the illiterate are often self-employed farm and home workers. Suggests a number of areas in which research would be valuable. (JOW)

The revitalization of industry needs a substantial investment in work force training. Reauthorization of the 1976 Vocational Education Amendments should focus on how vocational education can meet the needs of students and of the economy. (JOW)

Hypothesizes that the evident injustice which characterizes the present international structure of communication (developing nations exploited by developed nations) has created a need for a new international order of communications. Emphasizes that communication should be based on free and balanced international exchange and circulation of…

An integrated system of higher education geared to the national development plan can bring about fundamental shifts in national consciousness that will result in a more harmonious relationship between the principal resource of all development activities--people--and the goals toward which the national plans are aimed. (Author/IRT)

Discusses the new welfare law's elements that affect low-wage labor: work requirements, time limits, relaxed protections, and expanded state authority. Outlines high-road versus low-road policies in terms of economic development, human resource development, and administration. (SK)

Reforms of African educational systems with World Bank assistance are likely to fail unless they are based on a fundamentally African vision of society. This vision involves creating a habitat for human resource development, the use of intermediate technology, and space for the informal sector. (SK)

Addresses the implications of lifelong learning, development aid projects of UNESCO and the World Bank, transnationalism as a policy for education and development, and the position of ethnic minorities in a multicultural society. (SK)

Outlines an educational process designed to help provide communities with economic, social, and political information using community economic impact modeling. Describes the process of community meetings using economic impact, community demographics, and fiscal impact modules and the local preconditions that help make the process successful. (SK)

Explaining the Mexico has faced deep economic and social changes over the last decade, explores the changes or re-engineering needed in the country's higher education institutions to improve institutional efficiency through greater linkages with local economic and social development. (EV)

Employment statistics and survey data show that predominantly female market traders in Ghana do no fit stereotypes of illiterate, poor workers of the informal sector. Theories assuming that higher education levels enable transitions from the informal to formal sector may need reconsideration. Education-work connections appear to be gendered and…

Reviews some theories and experiences on interactions between higher education and societal development in developing countries. Explores whether higher education engineers societal change or adjusts to global requirements. Concludes that it responds to both dynamics. (EV)

Describes the Global Development Learning Network (GDLN), a satellite-driven global communication system developed by the World Bank to help developing countries fight poverty and share in a global exchange of information. Explains Distance Learning Centers that are used by private and public organizations and institutions for distance education…