Contents: 1. Issues and questions / Üner Kirdar.
2. Global development challenges: the population dimension / Nafis Sadik.
3. International scientific and technical cooperation in a fractured global order / Francisco R. Sagasti.
4. Towards human development: an opportunity for coping with new challenges / Federico Mayor.
5. The role of services in the third world: a strategy for the creation of value added / Gunter Pauli.
6. Technology: impact on human development / H.R.H. Princess Basma Bint Talal.
7. Human development in an environment of changing conditionality / Justine Elmendorff.
8. Participatory development: a key element in development strateties for the 1990s / Makoto Taniguchi.
9. Overcoming underdevelopment / Hernando de Soto and Deborah Orsini.
10. Men and women together? / Maureen O'Neil.
11. Development: a cultural lament / Talat Sait Halman.
12. Culture and knowledge in development / Lourdes Arizpe.
13. The ethic of cooperation: a new approach for the decade / Nicholaa Malet de Carteret.
14. Ethics for a new humanity / Linda Willows-Machera.
15. Ethics of leadership / Leslie Brooke Newell.