Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Foreword / Adebo, S. O. -- Author's Preface -- I. Planning without Facts -- II. Planning in Nigeria -- III. A General View of Planning -- IV. National Accounting from a Planning Standpoint -- V. Investment Criteria from a Planning Standpoint -- VI....

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- Short forms of titles used in the text -- INTRODUCTION. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT UNDER A COMMUNIST SIGN -- PART ONE. POPULATION MOVEMENTS AND THE LABOR FORCE IN EAST GERMANY -- CHAPTER I. POPULATION AND THE LABOR FORCE -- CHAPTER II. EMPLOYMENT BY...

The main problem of underdeveloped countries consists in an inflexible productive structure which makes it difficult to adopt to changes in world markets. There are three important instruments to improve their flexibility. The first instrument are the investments - not investments in general...