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Books and Economic Development

United Nations Conference on the Application of Science and Technology for the Benefit of the Less Developed Areas, Working Paper (1962), 6 pp.
"Education — Reading — Books — A local book industry — Establishing a book industry — Regional development — International cooperation — Books from abroad — Cooperation in all sectors: bookshops, school, village council, unions, corporations — These are the main points raised by the authors who finally stress the fact that the book remains the basic tool of education in the developing countries and that education and the campaign against illiteracy are inextricably bound up with economic development. [Working Paper, 9 Nov. 1962. Contribution to: The United Nations Conference on the Application of Science and Technology for the Benefit of the Less Developed Areas, Geneva, 4 to 20 February 1963. E/Conf. 39/K/87. Agenda Item: K.2.4]" (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2481, topic code 49)