This booklet contains a sampling of corporate programs designed to help alleviate urban social problems, and offers small and medium-sized businesses ideas for economic development programs involving the disadvantaged. Included are six hiring and recruitment programs; 15 related to dropouts, job training, and adult basic education; 14 for…

The goals of the Caltech Population Program are to increase understanding of the interrelationships between population growth and socioeconomic and cultural patterns throughout the world and to communicate this understanding. This series of occasional papers is one step in the process of communicating research results. The papers deal primarily…

Societies are constantly changing; there is no natural end to social evolution. Societies can be regarded as modernizing in the sense of continually undergoing change, but also in the sense of trying to achieve specific goals already achieved elsewhere. A society can become modernized in the latter sense by becoming more specialized or…

This report contains eight articles on the importance of the role of women in family planning. An Assistant Secretary General for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations, calls for increased female participation in national development. The Secretary General of The International Planned Parenthood Federation observes that women…

This report presents the methodology for short-run forecasting of personal income and employment in Hawaii. The econometric model developed in the study is used to make actual forecasts through 1973 of income and employment, with major components forecasted separately. Several sets of forecasts are made, under different assumptions on external…

This address focuses on the vital role language instruction plays in the development and maintenance of international trade relations between the United States of America and other trading powers. The crisis in international trading caused by an excessive flow of American dollars to foreign countries is discussed in terms of future trade…

The bulletin is one in the series "Rural Africana" published 3 times yearly by the African Studies Center, Michigan State University. "Rural Africana" is devoted to current research in the social sciences, exploring the problems of social and economic development in rural Africa south of the Sahara. The present issue is a…

This study investigates the characteristics of the border crossers and their role in federal programs, and analyzes their impact in depressed areas. In order to obtain information about the estimated 100,000 commuters working in the United States, a team of bilingual Mexican Americans interviewed Mexican citizens legally and illegally working in…

This selected bibliography (with brief annotations) on the Negro in the United States is based mainly on sources in the Library of Congress. Among the topics covered are the urban Negro, relations between the races, discriminatory practices in all areas, and efforts to obtain political and economic freedom, as well as the education and cultural…

Proceedings are presented of the 10th and 11th annual Indian education conferences hosted by Arizona State University of Tempe. As reported, the conferences were conducted to facilitate activities relating to American Indians in their efforts for self-determined advancement in education and in other areas of life. Drawing upon leadership of…

This paper addresses itself to the problem of long-term manpower development in Thailand. Relevant research studies are discussed in the introduction and the thesis of this report is stated: namely, that for Southeast Asia and developing nations in general, middle manpower development, and the kinds of educational institutions needed for such…

The conference was held to assess the nature and consequences of educational expansion in OECD countries during the last 10-15 years and to foresee the main policy problems arising from future continued educational growth. Conference discussion issues included educational policy goals, resources, and structure; educational planning and its…

The pattern of making use of the data processing (DP) technology in Latin America is divided into four phases; (1) a first phase where a whole generation of machines is practically ignored, (2) a second stage where only small units were employed, (3) a "status quo" where reasonably full use of the available systems is being reached for…

A long-range economics and human development program, launched in 1967 by the Fort McDermitt Tribal Council, outlined various projects for improving economic and living conditions on the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation, including the attraction of small industry. The purpose of this report was to make an informal assessment of development…

The papers presented in this collection are said to represent the major thrusts of research and other scholarly activities of rural sociologists in the South in 1972. Arranged in the order of their presentation at the Rural Sociology Section of the Southern Agricultural Workers meetings, these papers discuss such topics as youth, social change in…