This paper examines the economic changes that have taken place in recent years in two central European countries, Hungary and Poland. Findings in the paper are based on materials gathered during the summer of 1998 on a Fulbright-Hays seminar visit to Hungary and Poland and from talks with officials and professors in those countries. Observations…

A business incubator is an organization of services designed to nurture new businesses. Services that can be offered include management assistance, access to financing, business or technical support services, and shared office services. In 1997, 550 incubators served more than 13,000 clients, affiliates, and graduates. More than 80 percent of the…

This book presents the activities of the Asian Ministries for the Environment and government ministries relations with non-government organizations concerning planning environmental communication and education. This publication provides information on policies and strategies from a workshop organized by IUCN, UNEP, and UNESCO in Bangkok in July,…

This report provides an overview of the benefits of the state of New Jersey's investments in higher education. Since fiscal 1998, over $300 million in state support has been provided for technology infrastructure and inter-institutional connectivity, scientific and other equipment, technology-based economic development initiatives, renowned…

The nature of the Soviet economic challenge to the world and to the United States is described in relation to standard of living, political influence, hegemony of Eastern Europe, and military power (Author/KM)

The article is concerned with Canada's national objectives for the North. It sets out a reordering of priorities, suggesting a strategy for attaining those objectives which the Government considers to be of the highest priority for this decade (1970) in both the Yukon and the Northwest Territories. It takes special account of the fact that in most…

Stuart Chase, through his writings, contributed greatly to acquainting the American public with many concepts generally accepted today: social planning to eliminate economic waste, greater government regulation of business, confrontation of technological unemployment, a national approach to social and economic questions at right angles to laissez…

This section of the annual report on the chemical industry provides data on the chemical production of Japan, West Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, and France, including the output of major chemical products in these nations. (PR)

After enumerating the problems of pollution and overpopulation, author suggests courses of action for schools and individuals. (SP)

Discusses the relationship of New Zealand's economic development to its educational development, reviews the status of instructional media there, and points out that programed learning has had no impact to date in that country. (LS)

How may a journal of economic education help to realize economics in the transmission of knowledge and the spread of more accurate images of the social system without which democracy is likely to fail? (Editor)

New data on the economic history of Tokugawa, Japan necessitate revisions in traditional and Marxist interpretations, many of which are no longer consistent with the available evidence. One major outcome of recent studies is the awareness of the continuities between Tokugawa and Meiji economic growth. (RM)