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Human Resources, Employment and Development

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  • © 1984

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Editors:
  1. Samir Amin

    1. UN African Institute for Economic Development and Planning, Dakar, Senegal

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Part of the book series: International Economic Association Series (IEA)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Employment Problems of Backward Countries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Employment and Development: the Mexican Case

      • J. Ricardo Ramirez Brun, Ernesta Guizar Diaz
      Pages 3-19

    3. Demographic Pressure, Growth and Productivity in an Historical Perspective

      • Ester Boserup
      Pages 20-32

    4. The Structural Defects of Periphery Economies

      • Tamas Szentes
      Pages 33-51

    5. The Employment of Women with Social Change and Freedom of Women: The Case of Africa

      • Marie Angelique Savané
      Pages 52-66

    6. Employment and Manpower Generation

      • Gautam Mathur
      Pages 67-93

  3. Income Distribution and the Patterns of Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. Managing the Transition to Egalitarian Development

      • Keith Griffin, Jeffrey James
      Pages 97-115

    3. Income Distribution and Labour Utilisation Under Different Agrarian Systems

      • Dharam Ghai
      Pages 116-143

  4. The Basic Needs Approach

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. Basic Needs and Employment-oriented Strategies Reconsidered

      • Louis Emmerij
      Pages 147-169

  5. Industrialisation Policy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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    2. Choice of Type of Industrialisation in Developing Countries

      • Timohir Djokanovic
      Pages 173-185

  7. Migration in Search of Work

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 273-273
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    2. Immigrant workers in Europe

      • Gustave Massiah
      Pages 275-302
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Editors and Affiliations

  • UN African Institute for Economic Development and Planning, Dakar, Senegal

    Samir Amin

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Human Resources, Employment and Development

  • Editors: Samir Amin

  • Series Title: International Economic Association Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17461-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1984

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-34870-3Published: 14 June 1984

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-17461-4Published: 14 June 1984

  • Series ISSN: 2662-6330

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-6349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 307

  • Topics: Labor Economics

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