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Emphasis on economic issues.

Overall structure of charges now employed by government and their relation to expenditures and revenues; Great Britain.

City council representation in cities with 1980 populations over 25,000; US.

When attempting to speed up the process of structural transformation of small economies in developing countries, policy makers are confronted with a dire lack of finance. Such economies are often characterized by the presence of only one export industry, partly run with imported factors of production and based on the exploitation of the available natural resources. This industry usually has a dominant influence on the various macro-economic variables. However, as a rule, it has only limited industrial links with the rest of the economy, whose development potential is still being inadequately exploited. Consequently, the production base of the economy is usually dualistic and disharmonious, leading to substantial differences in productivity and income levels between different regions and sectors of industry. In these what might be termed "enclave economies," many projects must be undertaken to reform their unsatisfactory structure. For this purpose, the encouragement of domestic saving and a maximum use of the resulting savings for the financing of directly and indirectly productive investments are of vital importance. ; peer-reviewed

Impact of democracy and debt in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador; changing US policy; 7 articles.

Excerpted from his study, "Nongovernmental organizations and the ideas of human rights." Catholic, Jewish, and ecumenical programs, with an emphasis on Protestant activities.

Deals with Stalin's purges of German communist exiles in the Soviet Union.

Includes data from tracking polls and other surveys, and final election results.

In 1989, after 40 years in power, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is faced with its worst crisis since the Cultural Revolution over the issue of reform of the stalinist political system. Arguing that political reform was the necessary pre-condition for further change in China's economy, the reform wing of the CCP confronted conservatives who feared that the Party was losing its monopoly of Chinese politics. The result was that thousands of unarmed civilians in Beijing were killed by the army on 4th June 1989. The article analyses political leadership, political consequences of economic reforms and political reform (state/society relations and inner-Party-State relations). (DÜI-Sen)