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 …

the role of education in determining welfare and poverty and its reciprocal, the role of welfare and other aspects of … household welfare and that higher levels of education have relatively larger and increasing benefits. Improvements are observed …

of the nation to the holistic development of the young people of the country. This document aims to reinforce existing …

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] …

predicated via three sub-chains (i) from marketization to growth, (ii) from growth to overall material development welfare and … (iii) from material development to social welfare and democracy. We examine each of these sub-links in detail with a view …