Many countries have "regional problems". Income and political power are allocated unequally among regions with no significant change over time, and these inequities are a source of political tension. The regional problem in Pakistan is especially severe because the peculiar geographic nature of...

Dynamic models of interdependence are being widely used to analyse planning problems in underdeveloped countries. Basic to such models are complex sets of technico-economic data of which input-output coefficients and capital coefficients are crucial elements. As the results obtained from these...

One of the principal means for poor countries to accelerate their development is by using external resources to supply additional imports and to finance a higher level of investment. While this policy offers substantial benefits, it also requires that the structure of the economy be adapted to...

Much of our understanding- of structural change with industrialization is based on empirical studies that describe patterns in the relationship between consumption, intermediate and capital goods [1; 2, for instance]. Thus, classification cation of an industry's output, prices, imports or exports...

Focusing on the low-income parts of the world and reviewing the different ways we can define poverty, I first argue that what people generally mean by poverty – or, more broadly, by economic well-being – cannot be adequately captured by a single, absolute measure such as income level or a...

Much of the discussion of economic development in low and middle income countries and of poverty reduction has either ignored the issue of income distribution or has tended to view income distribution only in terms of its impact on economic growth. In this paper I argue that such an approach is...

Focusing on the low-income parts of the world and reviewing the different ways we can define poverty, I first argue that what people generally mean by poverty – or, more broadly, by economic well-being – cannot be adequately captured by a single, absolute measure such as income level or a...