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  <abstract>In An Assault on Poverty, the Panel on Technology for Basic Needs of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development offers analyses of poverty eradication and the role of science and technology with respect to sustainable huma n development, technical and vocational education, health, and small-scale economic activities, among other issues.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Science and Technology for Basic Needs: A Bridge; Chapter 2 Science and Technology for Development: An Overview; Introduction; Chapter 3 Policy Guidelines; Chapter 4 The Forgotten Strategy; Chapter 5 Old I mperatives, Fresh Approaches; Chapter 6 Sustainable Human Development in a Fractured Global Order; Chapter 7 Science for Sustainable Human Development, Technologies for Vital Rights; Chapter 8 Technology and Basic Needs in Ethiopia</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Panel on Technology for Basic Needs of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development.</note>
  <note>Published on the International Development Research Centre website. </note>
  <note>Title from Web page (IDRC, viewed Mar. 29, 2006). </note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references. </note>
  <note>Online version of the print publication.</note>
  <note>Mode of access: World Wide Web. </note>
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    <topic>Social aspects</topic>
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    <topic>Social aspects</topic>
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  <identifier type="isbn">0889368007 (paper)</identifier>
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