This publication is part of a series of books on comparative best practices in social development between Latin America and the Caribbean and East Asia undertaken by the Institute for Social Development (INDES) and the Japan Program of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). INDES is both a...

This publication is part of a series of books on comparative best practices in social development between Latin America and the Caribbean and East Asia undertaken by the Institute for Social Development (INDES) and the Japan Program of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). INDES is both a...

Since the beginning of the 1980s the less developed countries (LDCs) have been getting integrated with the global economy at a rapidly accelerating rate. The impetus for the process came from the need to make adjustment in the unsustainable imbalance in the external account that most of these...

This Working Paper explores the role of employment growth in determining the effect of a given rate of economic growth on the rate of change in poverty. It is based on the findings of 16 country case studies recently carried out by the United Nations Development Programme and the International...

Este trabajo intenta determinar el balance óptimo que debía existir entre el papel del Estado y otros actores -ONG, la sociedad civil y el sector privado- en la reducción de la pobreza en los países subdesarrollados contemporáneos. Empieza por identificar los principales elementos de una...

The concept of capital-intensity, defined as the ratio of capital to labour, has been used widely in both theoretical and applied problems of planning. These ratios have often been used in forecasting, e.g., ip measuring the possible expansion of employment that would be generated from a given...

Planning for the national economy is an infinitely complicated process. It involves the harmonization of a large number of independent decisions taken I- by a great many agencies and groups often representing conflicting interests in order to achieve certain targets which are sometimes...

This article presents the outline of a multi-sector, optimizing model for int erregional planning and uses it to analyse Pakistan's Third Five-Year Plan (1965- 70). This is an interregional (as distinguished from a national) model in so far as it recognizes the existence of economic regions...

It seems unnecessary to prepare an elaborate case emphasizing the need for some knowledge about the movement of real wages. Such knowledge would help confirm our ideas about the supply of labour and its abundance or scarcity, shed light on the mechanism of transfer of labour from the traditional...