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Developed countries in general and European countries in particular devote a substantial share of national resources to income redistribution programs that seek to alleviate and reduce poverty. This Symposium contributes to the analysis of such pro grams. It presents three papers written in a perspective that reflects European concerns with both social policies and analytical rigor. In particular the papers deal with the costs and consequences of anti-poverty programs no only in terms of the effect iveness in achieving poverty reduction but also looking at other impacts on welfare. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on developments related to organizational research. The programme TEMPUS, proposed by the Commission of the European Community and adopted by the Council on May 7th 1990 will provide in the framework of the overall PHARE budget for assistance to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, financial support to promote the quality and support the development of the higher education systems of Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. The increasing pace of global change is already providing a powerful challenge for change agents operating as consultants independently or internally to corporations or public utilities. In Europe, however, the challenge is even greater, as the struggle to establish economic and political unity attempts to accommodate the collapse of iron-curtain communism. The 1992 conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research seeks research on the management of information systems developers and users.

The article discusses the race, multiculturalism and labor organization prevailing in the U.S. Massive immigration and the subsequent ethnic re-composition of the working class are forming an essential part of the new U.S. economy. The U.S., during the recent two decades, has also witnessed important struggles of non-white immigrant workers for social organization and political representation, which have hardly become known in Europe. The United States is re-emerging as a global model for economic restructuring and these changes include many lessons for the labor movement in Europe.