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The studies of poverty, progress and development in this volume, first published in 1991, by a distinguished international roster of authors and researchers, aim to increase knowledge of the social mechanisms of pauperization, marginalization, and the exclusion of certain categories of society; to bring to light the potential and creative role of socio-cultural, intellectual, ethical, moral and spiritual values in progress and the development process; and to examine the links and contradictions between development and progress in order to propose ways of reducing social inequalities

A partir de données recueillies par l'OCDE et présentées à la conférence de Washington en février 1974, l'auteur brosse un tableau de la situation énergétique en Asie et souligne la diversité des problèmes qui se posent à cet égard. Selon lui, l'accroissement du prix du pétrole n'est qu'une des manifestations de l'inflation mondiale et il aura surtout une incidence sur le coût de la production agricole. L'évolution qui se dessine ne fait que compliquer le règlement des problèmes alimentaires qui sont cruciaux dans la région Extrême-Orient-Pacifique.

The United Nations is now playing a key role in the economic and technical development of the African continent and will undoubtedly be called upon to assume an even greater responsibility in this field during the next ten years. This development was correctly forecast five years ago by the late Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld. For he saw that the transition from the colonial era, which had made the European countries directly responsible for the development of the vast majority of the territories and peoples in Africa, prior to independence, would thrust upon the United Nations a very specific burden. As it happened, the question of the Congo has overshadowedthe other aspects of UN activity in Africa, although one can note a remarkable continuity in the progressive implementation of a coordinated program where all agencies of the United Nations family have to play their part.