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	encyclical encyclical originally, a pastoral letter sent out by a bishop, now a solemn papal letter, meant to inform the whole church on some particular matter of importance. Benedict XIV circulated the first known encyclical in 1740. Unlike those in the papal bull , doctrinal statements in an encyclical are... Read more
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	Yamoussoukro Yamoussoukro , city (1990 est. pop. 100,000), designated capital of Côte d'Ivoire, S central Côte d'Ivoire. A small town of less than 20,000 people until the late 1970s, Yamoussoukro was designated in 1983 to become the new national capital and an adminstrative and transportation center.... Read more
	Marshall Plan Marshall Plan or European Recovery Program, project instituted at the Paris Economic Conference (July, 1947) to foster economic recovery in certain European countries after World War II. The Marshall Plan took form when U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall urged (June 5, 1947) that... Read more
	Robert M. Solow Solow, Robert M. 1924– BIBLIOGRAPHY The American economist and 1987 Nobel laureate Robert Merton Solow was born on August 23, 1924, in Brooklyn, New York. Several years after his birth, economics, in the United States and globally, launched a great leap forward after the stock market... Read more
	Neocolonialism NEOCOLONIALISM. Neocolonialism can be defined as the continuation of the economic model of colonialism after a colonized territory has achieved formal political independence. This concept was applied most commonly to Africa in the latter half of the twentieth century. European countries had... Read more
	Charles Austin Beard Charles Austin Beard 1874-1948, American historian, b. near Knightstown, Ind. A year at Oxford as a graduate student gave him an interest in English local government, and after further study at Cornell and Columbia universities he wrote, for his doctoral dissertation at Columbia, The Office of... Read more
	Antonio de Oliveira Salazar António de Oliveira Salazar , 1889-1970, Portuguese statesman and dictator. After studying at the Univ. of Coimbra, he became professor of political economy there. Profoundly religious, Salazar was the leader of a political group committed to putting into action the social principles... Read more
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	economic planning Planning, EconomicI. Western EuropeJ. TinbergenBIBLIOGRAPHYII. Eastern EuropeJohn Michael MontiasBIBLIOGRAPHYIII. Development PlanningW. Arthur LewisBIBLIOGRAPHYI WESTERN EUROPEPlanning is engaged in by all sorts of institutions; among them, business enterprises and governments. This article mainly... Read more