The extracts presented in this issue are taken from essays appearing in RFF's new book, Natural Resources and International Development (see page 6). The book is an outgrowth of a seminar conducted in 1963 by Resources for the Future, at which experts from this and other countries discussed the relationship of natural resources to economic growth in the world today. Much of the emphasis in the prepared papers and in the discussions was on problems of development and trade in specific areas, and particular attention was paid to problems confronting lower-income countries and to ways in which these and the more prosperous countries might work together for mutual benefit.
In addition to the essays on resource development in particular places—Africa, Western Europe, the Soviet Union, and Latin America—drawn on below, the other essays in the book deal with world agriculture (D. Gale Johnson), world oil (M. A. Adelman), world fisheries (Anthony D. Scott), terms of trade for primary products (Charles P. Kindleberger), investment in raw materials (Chandler Morse), and transfers of knowledge and capital (Egbert de Vries).
A version of this article appeared in print in the February 1964 issue of Resources magazine.
