in the context of large scale econometric development modelling. I will discuss the results of the model and then analyze …The concept of basic needs is today at the center of many discussions about development and the international order …. Some international organizations are rethinking their prior evaluation of development policies based largely on aggregate …

The United Nations General Assembly will hold the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg in … 2002. The aim of the summit is to review progress in the implementation of sustainable development goals adopted in 1992 at … the historic United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro and map out a strategy for …

-laden countries. The link between remittances and expenditure patterns has become an important nexus in the global welfare development … investment expenditures the households spend remittances on. This study examines the impact of remittances on welfare development …’ livelihoods, where changes in expenditure patterns, consumption and savings-investment nexus for long term development lead to …

mutually, welfare improving. When also foreign firms become active, competition strengthens but domestic welfare declines …

Sen's concept of capabilities is rooted in welfare theory. For the development economist it has immediate, if somewhat … lenuous, appeal on counts. First, the concept provides an ethical basis for evaluating development from the stand point of … dichotomy in the pursuit of economic development. [Working Paper No. 275] …

, Growth, and Welfare provides a comprehensive look at the critical role of public capital in development … growth and human welfare, and develops a series of formal models for understanding how these channels operate. Bringing …