UNESCO science in S. E. Asia
UNESCO science in S. E. Asia
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联合国教科文组织在东南亚的科学
作者：
Y. Kakiuchi
AT its 17th General Conference UNESCO adopted a resolution aimed at the promotion of research and advanced training on the basic sciences with special emphasis on the needs of developing countries, and to this end UNESCO headquarters in Paris and the Field Science Office for South-East Asia in Jakarta have been working with the Japanese National Commission for UNESCO. The meeting on regional cooperation in basic science in South-East Asia was held in Tokyo last year to consider approaches, and scientists from nine countries from South-East Asia (in-" It is undoubtedly a misnomer to speak of a British technological strategy". That's the harsh verdict of Dr Robert Gilpin, Professor of PuBlic and International Affairs at Princeton, delivered in a mammoth report to a C:: mgressional committee last month. Gilpin suggested that for various reasons, the British" on the whole have made very poor use of their rich scientific and technological resources", and he warned that the United States may make the same mistakes. Gilpin's observations on Britain's technology policy were contained in a special report to the Joint Economic Committee on the hoary problem of how to integrate science policy and economic policy. Noting that" underlying the British malaise has been the problem of making the adjustment from the status of a global imperial power to that of a middle-sized Euro-p~ an state", Gilpin suggested that the relative industrial decline of the United States poses similar problems to that country. The US, he suggested, should learn from the mistakes of the British." In the first place", Gilpin suggests," British Government expenditures, like
