INTRODUCTORY NOTE..... BUILDING BLOCKS / MATÉRIAUX: ?Depaysanisation? on développement rural? Un choix lourd de conséquences (Ismail-Sabri Abdalla)... Rural poverty and development alternatives in South and South-East Asia: Some policy issues (Ajit K. Ghose and Keith Griffin)... "Somebody wants to develop me" (András Biró)... Towards Third World collective self-reliance (Edgardo A. Floto)... Economic cooperation among Third World countries: The conceptual and institutional framework (P.B. Karandawela)... A sustainable development strategy (Nancy K. Hetzel)... Mobilization of international development finance: Automaticity and the incremental approach (Horst Paul Wiesebach)..... MARKINGS: Prebisch at UNCTAD V: A reappraisal of development strategies... UNCTAD V, despite its failure, will prove to be a milestone in global structural change (An interview of Jan Pronk by Chakravarthi Raghavan)..... INTERACTIONS: Participation of rural poor in rural development (Prayag Mehta)... Surviving in rural Asia: An exhibit (John Friedmann)... Philippines church groups call for international social justice through self-reliance of Third World countries..... FOOTNOTES / NOTES.