More than three-fourths of the world's population live in so-called developing countries: nations that may not have a stable economy, energy supply, or advanced technology, and whose population may lack access to jobs, food, water, education, health care, and housing. RAND takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the problems facing developing countries and recommends policy solutions for global, national, and local economies.
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In low income households in developing countries, the proper feeding and nutritional/health care of a young child may be very time-consuming. This paper explores what is known about the relation of a woman's economic activities to her preschool aged...
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Forecasts energy demands of non-OPEC less-developed countries (NOLDCs) in the next decade, and considers implications for U.S. policies concerning NOLDCs.
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Sketches an alternative model which has been used to analyze breastfeeding, contraceptive use, birthspacing, and infant mortality using data from the Malaysian Family Life Survey.
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Recent developments in international lending and borrowing have invoked interest in the debt servicing capacity (DSC) of developing countries. This survey shows assessments that have been made of DSC and the complex policy implications which follow f...
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Nearly half the families in the large cities of developing countries live in squatter settlements. This paper outlines a housing services policy for low-income urban families. It emphasizes the incremental development of their own homes using famil...
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Transcribed text of an unwritten National War College lecture, suggesting that we stop looking for quantifiable indicators of potential revolution or insurgency, because govenments topple when the people feel that the rulers have lost their legitimat...
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A questioning of some basic concepts that guided U.S. national security policy toward the Third World in the past, and discussion of conceptual alternatives for assistance planning under the Nixon Doctrine.
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Developing countries can avoid some of the serious problems facing the United States in regard to trained computer professionals. This context for evaluating computer education policies is based on the hypothesis that the relative magnitude of most ...
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The use of educational television to improve the quality and quantity of education in developing countries is examined. A simple model relating economic development in emerging countries to education and the level of applied technology is presented....
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A consideration of the problems of applying the principles of systems analysis to the administrative concerns of developing countries. Systems analysis is not useful in the more important and basic issues faced by development administration. In ord...
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An examination of China's revolutionary strategy toward countries of the developing world. Internally, China is fighting a contradictory nationalist policy, has little money for exporting revolution, and since 1963, has conducted foreign policy in t...
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An examination of the relationship between armaments and international politics in the developing countries of six regions: Near East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America.
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An analysis of the factors involved in formulating a general theory of customs unions for developing countries. The model (1) accepts industrialization as a legitimate policy goal for the less-developed countries; (2) regards tariff as a policy instr...
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A proposal that the United States recruit foreign advisers from developing countries receiving U.S. aid in order to use their knowledge in the anti-poverty program. The author maintains that the experience of many foreigners engaged in regional or l...
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Presentation of a method for assessing performance in a developing country based on self-help measures in government and in domestic private savings. The method consists of deriving standards or norms for individual countries from multiple regression...
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An examination of divergent Soviet fviews on underdeveloped countries. The optimism that the USSR has shown over the underdeveloped areas of the world is becoming increasingly tempered and moderate. Despite this qualification, however, the highest ho...
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A review of the valid uses of operations research in the major economic and military-economic problems of underdeveloped countries. Certain qualifications and reservations are pointed out, these reservations tending to become more serious the higher ...
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Description of a method of assessing the degree of self-help present in developing countries. Gross domestic savings are selected as important measures of self-help. Several regression models are formulated. They hypothesize that gross savings depend...
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A discussion of the role of air transport in a developing economy.
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A translation from the November 1, 1960, issue of DIVO Pressedienst, the publication of a public opinion research institute in Frankfurt-am-Main.
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