Third World: Development or Crisis?
Third World Network
ISBN: 967-99908-0-X
84 pages, 15.5x21.5 cm
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This book is a summary of the collective and collaborative thinking based on the rich experience of leading activists, thinkers and writers on Third World affairs who participated in an international conference held in Penang, Malaysia, in November 1984. This historic conference which focused on the crisis facing Third World countries, led to the formation of the Third World Network.

This book discusses issues affecting the Third World such as widespread famine, economic dependence on the West, cultural alienation, rural poverty and inappropriate development. Action proposals are given for tackling these problems.

CONTENTS

Preface

PART 1 GENERAL DECLARATION

Introduction
External Dependence and Unequal Income Distribution at Global Level
Transnational Corporations and their Products
The Debt Crisis
Unbalanced Internal Economic Structures
Growth-oriented Economic Planning at the Cost of Basic Needs

Introduction
Depletion and Draining of Third World Resource
People's Rights to Human Needs
Science, Technology and Environment
Patenting in Developing Countries

Introduction
Communications and the Mass Media
Tourism
Culture and Heritage

International law and Relations
Specific Resolution on Nicaragua
Human and Civil Rights for the Third World
The Role of People's Movements and Organisations and Development NGOs

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