The United States and World Development: Agenda 1980
John W. Sewell and the Staff of the Overseas Development Council
Reviewed by By William Diebold, Jr.
This valuable annual lives up to its name and provides a well-thought-out list of recommendations for action by the U.S., provided it can "exercise a new kind of leadership" instead of persisting in a record of missed opportunities.

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