Labour force structure can be regarded as an important factor in analysing employment and unemployment problems in a developing economy. Specially in a country where data on the employment situation are very limited, characteristics regarding the structure of the labour force contribute a great...

Many of the present difficulties of the world economy have been blamed on the two oil-price explosions of the 1970s. Professor Chichilnisky shows that, at least in the case of the oil-importing developing countries, the negative effects have been overestimated. In fact, in some respects the oil...