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So Comic Relief raised ten million pounds for the third world. The TV comedians followed Band Aid, Live Aid and Sport Aid in contributing to the huge sums that have been collected by voluntary effort since the Ethiopian famine appeared on our TV screens in 1984.
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Foster-Carter, A. (1987) ‘Development’, in Developments in Sociology, Vol. 3 (Causeway).
Webster, A. (1990) Introduction to the Sociology of Development (Macmillan).
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© 1991 David Barrat, Chris Brown, Tony Cole, Peter de la Cour, David Cutler and Karim Murji, Roger Gomm, Patrick McNeill
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McNeill, P. (1991). Comic Relief and Aid. In: Society Today 2. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12065-9_12
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