An der Schwelle zum neuen Jahrhundert steht die Wirtschaftspolitik vor großen Herausforderungen. Vor dem Hintergrund der Globalisierung, des Wandels zur Dienstleistungsgesellschaft, der Veränderung von demographischen Strukturen und des Übergangs der planwirtschaftlich organisierten...

"Development" can be defined and measured in a great variety of ways. The human development index used by the United Nations Development Programme represents an attempt to place the emphasis on human welfare rather than on the progress of the national economy. This index, however, contains a...

Protectionism in international trade, in particular with regard to imports from developing countries, has increased rapidly since the beginning of the 1970s. Dieter Schumacher analyses the reasons for this development and makes some proposals for a liberalization of trade which take the...

The opposition to a liberal stance on imports of manufactures from developing countries is growing as certain specific groups of products made in these countries prove increasingly competitive and the industrialized countries suffer from persistent high unemployment. Model computations for the...