Argues that strategies encouraging surplus extraction from agriculture, combined with stalled industrialisation constitute the root causes of persistent rural poverty. Suggests that an agriculture-first strategy is necessary not only for rural poverty alleviation, but also for successful...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on industrial growth, trade and economic policy in Brazil as a newly industrializing country - reviews social and economic characteristics, economic development and the role of the state; examines iron and steel industry and motor vehicle industry; studies...

Traces how stabilisation policies have affected economic development in general and the level of certain groups in particular.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on economic policy reorientation and agrarian reforms since 1978 in China - outlines economic development trends (1950-1981); provides comparisons with policies (incl. Agricultural policy) before 1978; discusses reforms of the commune system, the separation of...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper examining the impact of higher energy costs, partic. Petroleum price increases, on economic development trends, 1970-1982, in Zambia - covers balance of payments, economic growth, trade, inflation, wages, employment, income distribution, consumption, etc.;...

Reviews the liberalization experience of Bolivia and Chile during the 1990s and argues that the IMF structural reform policy package had serious shortcomings.