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D+C Development and Cooperation (No. 6, November/December 2002, p. 3)
Dear Readers,
for me this is a farewell issue of Development and Cooperation because I am retiring as Editor at the end of the year. At the age of 66 and after 26 years of editing the journal, I think the moment has come to step down to have more time for the family and for new projects which I had to postpone for years.
However, let me assure you that I will miss working for D+C and being in contact with you, our readers, over so many years. I would like to thank you cordially for remaining faithful to D+C and helping the magazine setting its agenda through many comments and suggestions. My thanks also goes to our authors without whom the success of D+C would not have been possible. In particular, I would like to thank the many contributors from outside Germany, especially the developing countries, who enriched the content of D+C with their knowledge of local conditions and the viewpoints of people on the other side of the North-South dividing line. Throughout my work with D+C, it has been my endeavour to cater to readers in the English-speaking developing world. Their information needs and interests have been the yardstick for the selection of topics and news. It is for you, our readers, to judge whether this concept has met with success.
Throughout the years, D+C has undergone many changes. The covers of D+C from 1976 onwards sampled above will remind you of what D+C looked like in earlier days. From January, 2003, D+C will undergo yet another change in layout. It will added more pages and be more colourful, with more pictures, tables and graphic elements which will make reading easier. The cover page will also be changed. And, as perhaps the most important improvement, D+C will be published as a monthly in the future.
I hope that all these changes will be welcome to you and that you will continue to enjoy reading D+C as you have done in the past.
From me and my wife Gertraud, who has done the layout for D+C for the last 25 years and rendered her invaluable assistance in organising the editorial office, it is time to say goodbye and to wish you well wherever you are in the more than 150 countries in which D+C is being read. May Development continue to be promoted through Cooperation and a more equitable and prosperous world be created.
This is what we have worked for with D+C, and this will continue to be the magazine's goal.
With best wishes
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