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  1. Nicaragua: Development Under Fire (1985 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

    The Sandinista government of Nicaragua has made remarkable progress since the 1979 Revolution with its campaigns on literacy, health, child care and land reform. A United States backed opposition, the...

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  2. People Trade, The (7 Parts) (1985 Video)

    Producer
    Judy Jackson
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60, 6 x 30 min.

    In 7 parts: 1) introductory programme on the world as a market place in which labour is bought and sold; 2) migrant workers in Mexico; 3) the condition of Mexican migrants in the US; 4) British companies...

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  3. Seeds of Hope: The Village (1985 Video)

    Director
    Malcolm Hirst; Charles Stewart
    Producer
    Charles Stewart
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min.

    Filmed in Ethiopia over a three-year period from 1983 to 1986, the programme chronicles how environmental destruction and mismanaged aid pushed a village and its people to the edge of extinction. Focuses on...

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  4. New Green Revolution, A (1984 Video)

    Producer
    Martin Freeth
    Subject
    Agriculture; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    An economist, Keith Griffin (President of Magdalen College, Oxford) looks critically at the new ‘green revolution’ as scientists work in Mexico, Bangladesh and the Philippines to help small farmers grow...

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  5. Nicaraguan Journey (1984 Film, Video)

    Director
    Holly Aylett; Jack Reiter; Wolf Triado
    Subject
    Development studies; Politics & government; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Record of a 10-day tour of Nicaragua in May 1984 by a delegation of 12 women from Britain and America; the women came from trade union movements, from black women’s organisations and from the peace...

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  6. People of Porgera (1984 Video)

    Director
    John Davis
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £27.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A film made of the Porgera people in Papua New Guinea before gold was discovered. Shows their courting ceremony, and a sing-sing; discusses marriage and bride price, wealth, debt and payback, salt, stone...

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  7. Picture of Health (8 Parts) (1984 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies; Health & safety; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 8 x 50 min., 1993 sale: £10.00 (+VAT +p&p) each

    Films intended to challenge the notion that ill-health is a matter merely for individual concern, arguing that society is also involved, and change must come about through political action. 1: Argues that...

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  8. Reclaiming the Earth (1984 Video)

    Producer
    Richard Keefe
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min.

    Examines some of Kenya’s economic and ecological problems: cash crops which deprive local people of food, short-sighted agricultural policies which leave the earth impoverished and development schemes...

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  9. Why Should You Train As a Planner? (1984 Multimedia)

    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Audiocassette. 11 min.; 20 slides. col.

    Tells the story of an imaginary country where most of the available money is spent on an inappropriate hospital.

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  10. Utopia Limited. Tape 1 (1983 Video)

    Director
    Richard Keefe; Nigel Maslin
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 150 min.

    Examines a world system rooted in the unequal distribution of wealth and power and shows how the issues affect people in the UK. 1: Shows work being done in Britain to increase awareness of how the wider...

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