This book is a compendium of deliberations from a seminar on "Understanding the educational book industry", Washington, D.C., September 1997. The book provides a comprehensive and global approach to educational...
Since the founding of the People's Republic, The Government of China has recognized the importance of textbooks and has endeavored to supply them to all students. The present system succeeds in providing...
The urban population of the Sahel is expected to triple between 1975 and 200; an addition of 8 million people, at least half of them migrants. Present conditions are inadequate to absorb such an increase...
Between 1975 and the year 2000 the cities of the developing countries will be expected to absorb 70 percent of the projected population increases 1.3 billion people, most of them poor. By any measures...
Between 1975 and the year 2000 the cities of the developing countries will be expected to absorb 70 percent of the projected population increases. This paper examines the causes, magnitude, and locations...
The pattern of urbanization in Madagascar is typical of many former colonial countries; economic activities have been concentrated within a few main urban areas. The spatial concentration of industrial...