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PROSPECTS FOR A SUCCESSFUL, UN-APPROVED INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR THE 1980S ARE ASSESSED. THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF 1970S ARE REVIEWED - LOW RATES OF GROWTH, HIGH POPULATION INCREASES, EXPANDING POVERTY - AND THE 'BASIC NEEDS' APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT, RECOMMENDED BY THE HEAD OF THE WORLD BANK, IS DESCRIBED. A SHIFT TOWARD QUALITATIVE INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE IS RECOMMENDED OVER 'PURE GROWTH'.

ADVANCED SECULARIZATION IN THE SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES HAS NOT RESULTED IN THE ELIMINATION OF "THE RELIGIOUS FACTOR" FROM POLITICAL LIFE, RATHER HAS IT LED TO A RESURGENCE WITH THE RECENT ESTABLISHMENT IN SWEDEN, DENMARK AND FINLAND OF NATIVE COUNTERPARTS TO NORWAY'S CHRISTIAN PEOPLE'S PARTY.

September's elections saw highly significant shifts across all 3 bands of the political spectrum: on the right the Conservatives confounded general expectations of an even more remarkable surge in support for the far-right Progress Party than actually occurred; in the centre the reunited Liberal Party which had been set fair to return to the Storting failed to surmount the new 4% threshold; and on the left the Socialist Left Party more than trebled their previous quota of seats. (SJK)

DURING THIS YEAR A TOTAL OF 30 MILLION PEOPLE ARE LIKELY TO DIE FROM DISEASES ASSOCIATED WITH HUNGER AND MALNUTRITION. ANOTHER 500 MILLION PEOPLE STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE THE HUNGER WHICH IS THEIR DAILY LOT. GOVERNMENTS MUST NOW ACCOUNT FOR THEIR STEWARDSHIP OVER THE LAST DECADE. ONLY BY EXAMINING WHY IT ALL WENT WRONG WILL HUMANITY HAVE ANY CHANCE OF ELIMINATING HUNGER IN THE NEXT 10 YEARS. DID GOVERNMENT MINISTERS REALLY MEAN IT WHEN THEY PASSED THEIR RESOLUTION 10 YEARS AGO OR DID 1984 THEN SEEM SUCH A LONG WAY OFF THAT THEY HOPED SOMETHING WOULD 'TURN UP' BY THEN?