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Peer reviewedBunker, Stephen G. – American Journal of Sociology, 1984
A model organized around the predominance of specific commodities at different times is used in a case study of the sequence of extractive export economies in the Amazon basin from the colonial period to the present. Such a model highlights the differences between extractive and productive economies. (Author/IS)
Descriptors: Capitalism, Case Studies, Developing Nations, Economic Development
Brest, Gilda L. de Romero – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Education, 1977
Discusses a model which attempts to find socio-political solutions to Latin American educational problems based upon the capacity of society for changes and renewal. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Development, Educational Opportunities, Educational Problems
Peer reviewedChaffee, Steven H.; Izcaray, Fausto – Communication Research--An International Quarterly, 1975
Discusses media-centered communication research models and applies them to a field setting in Venezuela in an attempt to assess the extent to which social processes depend on mass communication. See CS 703 632 for subscription information. (MH)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Developing Nations, Evaluation Criteria, Information Dissemination
Cuthbert, Marlene – 1981
This monograph is a history of the Caribbean News Agency (CANA), which is jointly owned by private and public mass media of its region and independent of both governments and foreign news agencies. It is proposed that CANA may provide a unique model of an independent, regional third-world news agency. Sections of the monograph examine (1) CANA's…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Information Centers, Information Dissemination
Escala, Miguel J. – 1989
The paper provides a framework for identifying trends in planning in Latin American universities for the last 20 years. Identification of the planning trends is based on two main dimensions: the purpose of the relationship between universities and the external environment (organization-centered versus society-centered), and the degree by which the…
Descriptors: College Planning, College Role, Developing Nations, Educational Practices
