Recent Policy-Oriented Research and Current Policy Issues: A Cursory Review

This paper is a review of studies having implications on policy efforts. To facilitate the review, the studies are grouped into those dealing with the 1983-1984 economic crisis and those looking specifically into: 1) trade and industrial policies 2) agricultural policies 3) natural resources and environmental management 4) financial polices 5) energy 6) rural, urban and regional development 7) poverty and equity 8) population and human resource development and 9) macroeconometic modeling.