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The location of an Organization is important. Most are located in impersonal buildings of steel and glass. In some, very few indeed, you feel the vestige of a presence of the past. The House in which the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation has been located since 1965 -- a few years after its inception 50 years ago -- is one of those very rare places where one gets the distinct impression that creative people have lived and worked there. Adapted from the source document.

Why and when do turning points occur? How are they prepared? What are the choices before us when it comes to economic and social development policies? What is the role of culture in development? Do ideas play a role? What are the interests behind the ideas? The present paper tries to answer these and other questions and compares the advantages and disadvantages of global development theories with regional and local development policies that put more emphasis on the role of culture in economic development. – growth ; development ; global and local policies ; culture ; history ; ideas

Reading Keith Griffin is like listening to a Frenchman presenting his ideas in three parts and ten minutes. It is clear, brilliant, and a delight for the ear, but once it is over you scratch your head and wonder what exactly the meaning of it all was. In the recent article by Griffin published in this journal (Griffin, 2003), there were two instances where I scratched my head. The first instance was when he pleaded in favour of mobility of the factor labour, not only of labour in general, but of unskilled labour in particular in order to reduce global income inequalities. The second instance occurred when he argued in favour of a compulsory tax and transfer mechanism in replacement of the old‐style foreign aid that is 'nearly obsolete'.