BUILDING BLOCKS: Value for people: the potential role of a consumer movement in the Third World (Khor Kok Peng)... Haifa (Lynah Hamadeh)... An alternative future for Malta (Peter Serracino Inglott, Grupp Alternattivi)... "Overcompensation or expropriation?" - Foreign investments in the Third World (Maurice A. Odle) ... Cooperation for development in South Asia: a programme of subregional collective self-reliance (Marga Institute)... North-South interdependence, development and trade (G. Chichilnisky)... A review of the North-South negotiating process: Assessment and policy conclusions (Arjun Sengupta and the Centre for Research on the New International Economic Order)... MARCAS EN EL CAMINO:Una perspectiva latinoamericana. Liberación y autonomía en la década del 80 (Juan Somavía)..... INTERACTIONS: Déclaration de Dakar... Quelques remarques sur la maîtrise des besoins (Serge Antoine)... Expériences... Social ecology and dual economy (Joseph Huber)... The myth of private business in Third World countries (A. K. Ventura)... Basic needs, poverty and government policies in Sri Lanka (P. Richards and W. Gooneratne) - A review by Leelananda de Silva... Peasants in power: Alexander Stamboliski and the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union, 1899-1923 (John D. Bell) A review by Andràs Biró... MATERIALS RECEIVED..... FOOTNOTES / NOTES / NOTAS.