Volume 27, Number 19 · December 4, 1980
The Situation Is Desperate But Not Critical
By Wassily Leontief
North-South, A Program for Survival Development Issues Under the Chairmanship of Willy Brandt
The Report of the Independent Commission on International
MIT Press, 304 pp., $4.95 (paper)
Rich and Poor Nations in the World Economy
by Albert Fishlow, by Carlos S. Diaz-Alejandro, by Roger D. Hansen, by Richard R. Fagen
McGraw-Hill, 264 pp., $6.95 (paper)
'There is a real danger that in the year 2000, a large part of the world's population will be living in poverty.' This is a quotation from the foreword to the so-called Brandt Report. A more realistic assessment of the present state of the world economy, and of social and political forces that might bring about a change, should lead to the conclusion that not only in the year 2000, but for many years into the twenty-first century, hundreds of millions of people in Asia, Africa, and Latin America will continue to live in conditions of utter destitution that ceased to exist a hundred and fifty years ago in advanced industrialized countries.
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