ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the interaction between population growth, income distribution and poverty, and its impact on economic development - presents an economic model for comparison of economic growth, public investment, literacy rates, and other variables affecting low income groups....

ILO pub. Article on employment trends in the Mexico City urban area - examines its economic development and industrial development from 1921 to 1980, showing how the rapid population growth of the urban population through extensive rural migration and high birth rates affected employment...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper comprising a comparison of demographic aspects in public expenditure with regard to developing countries - aims at testing the extent to which population growth diverts resources from productive to less productive public investment. Statistical tables.

Reviews the debate and the frameworks in terms of the concept of catching up, the policy issues raised, and the principles guiding the design of industrial policies. Provides a comparative analysis between the growth perspective and the institutional economics approach, draws lessons for the...