Departments of Physiology in the Third World: The Struggle for Survival and Development

Physiology ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 258-261
Author(s):  
Harvey V. Sparks ◽  
Evangelos A. Petropoulos
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Developing World ◽  
National Development ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
The Third ◽  
Trained Personnel ◽  
Survival And Development ◽  
The Third World

Physiologists in Third World countries are working to establish teaching and research programs that can contribute to national development. To do this they need trained personnel, equipment, and the opportunity for sustained contact with physiologists in developed countries. By providing support attuned to local conditions, physiologists in wealthy nations can contribute to the solution of the special problems facing their fellow scientists in the developing world.

Science, Technology and Development: China as a “Case Study”

1972 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 520-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Genevieve C. Dean
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Third World ◽  
National Development ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Developing Economy ◽  
The Third ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
The Third World

China shares with the developing countries of the third world the broad objective of economic growth, starting from a condition the Chinese themselves describe as “poor and blank” relative to the material resources of the developed countries. Yet “self-reliance” has been the keynote of Chinese policies for ten years, and the Chinese now urge the rest of the third world countries to adopt the same principle for their own development. In broad terms, “development” refers to the improvement of a society's material welfare, resulting from economic growth and from appropriate measures of income distribution. In Chinese and, increasingly, in general usage, such economic growth is identified with the use of production processes and the production of goods new to the developing economy. “Self-reliance” does not necessarily preclude transfer of foreign technologies into the developing country, but specifies technological change which occurs in response to demands arising within the developing economy itself, rather than imposed on it from outside. In any country, demand for technological change and distribution of the fruits of technological advance are dependent on its political and social structure, as well as on economic factors, and on the country's international economic and political bargaining power. China, whose leaders have a particular perception of the implications of these relationships for their development objectives, is an especially significant “case study” of the use of science and technology for national development.

International stratification and Third World military industries

1984 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie G. Neuman
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Transfer System ◽  
The Third ◽  
Arms Trade ◽  
Trained Personnel ◽  
Defense Production ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Military ◽  
Developed World

Weapons production is increasing in the Third World, affecting the structure of the world arms transfer system. The quantitative and qualitative capabilities of Third World industries imply that the number of less developed countries (LDCs) producing major weapons will not increase dramatically in the future; that LDC defense production will remain a small fraction of the world's arms trade; and that military industries in the Third World will concentrate on defense items that are older and less complicated than technologies manufactured in the developed world. Various socioeconomic factors might explain the reasons for the disparities among arms producers. Factors of scale, particularly the existence of a large military to provide an adequate internal market, combined with financial resources and technically trained personnel to support the necessary industrial infrastructure, determine a state's comparative military-industrial capabilities. The inherent constraints of size and infrastructure will create a hierarchically stru tured world arms trade and production system as the military industries of states grow.

scholarly journals Ensuring Sustainable Urban Transformation in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-224
Author(s):  
B. Setiawan ◽  
Tri Mulyani Sunarharum
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
Third World ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Third World

Of the many important events that occurred in the two decades of the 21st century, the process of accelerating urbanization—especially in third-world countries—became something quite phenomenal. It's never even happened before. In the early 2000s, only about 45 percent of the population in the third world lived in urban areas, by 2020 the number had reached about 55 percent. Between now and 2035 the percentage of the population living in urban areas will reach about 85 percent in developed countries. Meanwhile, in developing countries will reach about 65 percent. By 2035, it is also projected that about 80 percent of the world's urban population will live in developing countries' cities.

Third World Mass Communications: A Basic Bibliography

1982 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-103
Author(s):  
John A Lent
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Third World ◽  
New World ◽  
National Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mass Communications ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
The Third ◽  
Information Order ◽  
The Third World

To produce a selected bibliography on Third World mass communications has become rather difficult in recent years, because of an abundance of materials. The controversy that led to and nourished the New World and International Information Order augmented the literature by many fold and in some cases impressively — though not always differently, as catch phrases and arguments on all sides of the debate were repeated almost slavishly in packaged articles and books reminiscent of the works of a public relations practitioner. The growth of journalism training, research and educational institutions — and a corresponding increase in teachers, researchers and writers — in Third World nations also produced a glut of information. Because of these factors and a space limitation, this bibliography is devoted almost entirely to books and monographs published between 1971 and 1981. A list of periodicals which carry Third World mass communications articles is added, with notations on special issues devoted to the topic. To do more than this concerning periodical literature is prohibitive in this article. Categories used are bibliographies; mass communications, broken down into general, advertising and public relations, broadcasting, film and press; communication and development in the Third World (including media's role in social change, national development and integration, rural development and revolutionary movements); communications, politics and governments in the Third World (including law of the press, political processes and ideologies, right to communicate and press freedom); and the New World and International Information Order and the Third World (including media imperialism, flow of news and information and national sovereignty). This listing in no way is meant to be exhaustive; instead, it is designed to serve as a basic bibliography of the most recent books and monographs written by researchers and scholars throughout the world, but mainly from the United States.

Foreign Intervention in Medical Education: A Case Study of the Rockefeller Foundation's Involvement in a Thai Medical School

1976 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Donaldson
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Third World ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Rockefeller Foundation ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
The Third ◽  
Foreign Intervention ◽  
Foundation Program ◽  
The Third World

A case study of the process of foreign intervention in medical education in the developing world is presented. Material collected from the Rockefeller Foundation Archives on a Foundation program in Thailand is used to analyze the conditions under which foreign agencies and their personnel intervene in the development of medical professionals in the Third World and to study the problems that may occur as a result of such intervention. The importance of value consensus and the competitive advantage foreigners have in the marketing of professional models are highlighted as reasons for the diffusion of Western models of medical education throughout the developing world.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document