A TOTAL OF 118 DELEGATES AND OBSERVERS REPRESENTING 24 COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES AND BRITISH TERRITORIES AND A NUMBER OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ATTENDED A CONFERENCE TO HELP EACH PARTICIPATING COUNTRY SECURE THE MAXIMUM POSSIBLE IMPROVEMENT IN ITS ARRANGEMENTS FOR EDUCATING AND TRAINING TECHNICIANS. RECOGNIZED EXPERTS PRESENTED THE MAIN THEMES…

This bibliography lists 724 books and articles dealing with the economics of education. With a few exceptions, the listings begin with 1950 and the majority have been published since 1960. Areas covered include (1) theory of human capital, (2) textbooks, (3) collected readings, (4) the political economy of education and broad social concerns, (5)…

This first survey of community development in Canada attempts to give a conspectus of activities past, in progress, and planned, in the communities of the socially and economically deprived Indians, Negroes, and Eskimos. It examines the extent of commitment of federal and provincial governments to community programs and projects, and comments on…

As the concept of community is changing, emphasis in community analysis is changing from a geographic focus to examination of interest clusters within a geographic location. Village communities are declining while town-country communities are becoming more numerous. The suburban community is a recent development, and although it develops its own…

The Seminar, a joint venture of the Agency for International Development and the Labor Department of the United States, brought together 29 participants from 20 developing countries for the purpose of exchanging ideas and experiences on manpower programs and planning efforts. These proceedings are the result of notes taken by reporters during the…

Describing the increasing numbers of Canada Natives who must reconcile the conflict arising from the economic necessity to migrate and the emotional necessity to stay in Manitoba's rural areas, this book identifies the following problems facing the rural to urban Canada Native migrant: lack of adequate housing; lack of finances; deficiency in…

Providing documentation of past injustices to the Canada Native, this book presents specific recommendations regarding the policies required to better the relationship between two sovereign peoples, the Indian tribes of Manitoba (as represented by the Manitoba Indian Brotherhood) and the Canadian Government. Divided into two major sections dealing…

The Ljubljana seminar, whose background and working papers are presented in this volume, was an outcome of the United Nations' consideration of the problems of ethnic and linguistic minorities. The twenty-five papers cover topics such as the study of multinational societies; the protection of minorities and minority rights in Yugoslavia,…

Information gathered via literature review, interview, and personal observation was used to examine the effectiveness of animation rurale programs in Senegal and Niger, French West Africa. Identifiable animation rurale assumptions tested as applicable to Senegal and Niger were: nationwide development programs at the grass roots level can be…

For many years, developers have placed near total reliance on increased productivity in agriculture, greater exploitation of natural resources, and the addition of new manufacturing industries as strategies for community economic development in nonmetropolitan areas. The concentration on expanding goods producing industries is unnecessarily…

This paper focuses on the change in the growth rate in schools by looking at some of the available data and rearranging it in ways that explain the flattened growth rate. The analysis begins with an overview of the market--past, present, and future. From there, future prospects for the school business are estimated. Declining enrollments, a tight…

A distillation of hundreds of speeches, working papers, panel sessions, informal discussions, and formal resolutions, this report is derived from the First National Conference on Rural America (April 1975) and reflects emergence of a rural political platform. Attended by approximately 1,500 people from 49 States, Puerto Rico, and Canada, the…

Situated on the Sierra Madre's western slope is Zacapoaxtla, one of the 222 municipios in the State of Puebla, Mexico. From prehispanic times, Zacapoaxtla has been a "region de refugio" where groups of American Indians cluster, isolate themselves from the rest of the world, and maintain their cultural traditions insofar as the national…

Bringing together the thinking and practical experiences of Asian Member State representatives in the United Nations, this report on Asian rural youth and out-of-school education is derived from a 1974 seminar held in the Philippines. The seminar conclusions and recommendations presented emphasize the following: (1) Potential of Out-of-school…

The Appalachian Regional Commission, created via the Regional Development Act of 1965, documents a decade of contributions to Appalachian socioeconomic development in this 1975 annual report. Topics covered in this report include: the ten years of foundation building; the Region before 1965; the Region and the Appalachian Regional Commission;…