Recent reflections on development policy have tried to eliminate the weak points in the economically oriented development theories which have dominated development planning up to now, and the traditional modernisation theories complementary to them. The propagation of strategies geared towards...

Development plans form one of the bases from which a development process starts. One of the problems encountered is that a large variety of action parameters in the political and economic spheres have to be taken into account in the drafting of a plan and in structural analysis. The problem of...

After a short survey of Repelita I, Indonesia’s First Five Year Plan, the author reviews Repelita II, Although this Second Plan’s broad strategy remains much the same as of Repelita I, its emphasis is on problems recognised but not yet overcome, e.g. those of income policy, job creation,...

This paper establishes the financial feasibility of an employer of last resort (ELR) program in a small developing country like Tunisia, and argues that an ELR-led economic development policy is vastly superior to the traditional import substitution industrialization (ISI), export-led, and...

The development plans of Marxist Leninist states are usually given short shrift as expressions of ideology (at best) and propaganda (at its most pathetic). Yet there is value in considering critically these development plans, if only to get a sense of the mindset of high level functionaries with...

Iran is a country of conflicts. One of the conflicting areas is located between the fundamental legislations and the laws passed throughout the years. Through the current study, the conflict between Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Act (FIPPA) and Law on Sixth Five-year Development...

Empowerment, as a means and an end of human development, is related to the vulnerable or disadvantaged sections of the society like women. The paper aims at examining the provisions for women empowerment in the five year plans of India. Uncertainty or problems arise when moving theory to...

This publication, the first in a series of three, considers the feasibility of the central economic growth target that is set out in South Africa's National Development Plan 2030. It then explores some of the associated human development targets. The paper first looks at the core characteristics...