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An examination of the effects of graft, i.e., the misuse of public office for private ends, on economic development. Graft does not necessarily retard development. Moreover, it is not a homogeneous phenomenon: there are numerous types, both collus...
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A caveat against the use of systems analysis to aid current economic-development decisionmaking. Systems analysis rationally identifies the preferable alternative through comparison of expected results in terms of goals. It is inapplicable to many ...
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A sharply critical appraisal of [The] [Postwar Development of the Republic of] [Vietnam: Policies and Programs], a recent study of prospects for a non-Communist South Vietnam, and the U.S. role in its development.
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Formulates an econometric model of the supply of Colombian coffee to use in estimating how the coffee industry would respond to price incentives to lower production.
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An examination of the growth potential of the Egyptian economy. Within the context of present political uncertainties in the Middle East, this study investigates the problem of whether Egypt will be able to return to a path of sustained growth, what ...
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A look at past economic development in Syria and a discussion of expected future growth, along with potential obstacles. Syrian oil production will be the most expansive factor in the economy, coupled with anticipated industrial agricultural benefit...
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Description of RAND research in the field of political and economic development.
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Several articles in this issue discuss how economic planning is hampered by shortages of computers, desk calculators and abacuses, repairmen, and mathematical economists, by lack of coordination, and by the data problem. Economists and mathematicians...
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A review of events in Indonesia since the overthrow of Communism and of Indonesia's current plans for economic development. The priorities set by Indonesian economic planners are in accord with the best judgment of the international economic profess...
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Gustav Papanek, in his vigorous chronicle of Pakistan's economic development, uses Pakistan's experience to question many concepts in the development literature and to find ample evidence that destroys some of the shibboleths about traditional societ...
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A discussion of current economic concepts of regionalism and "second-best" worlds as they relate to problems of United States and Japanese aid programs in less-developed countries. Multicountry associations have been formed for many purposes with va...
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An analysis of the demographic causes and consequences of the population explosion in Latin America. About half of the current population is under 15 years old, due to a high level of fertility and a decline in infant and child mortality. The resul...
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The backorder function for an economic order policy as derived by Hadley and Whitin, while convex in [r] (the reorder point) and convex in [Q] (the order quantity), is unfortunately not generally convex in both [r] and [Q].
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An analysis of the costs and planning and operating requirements for establishing temporary villages for South Vietnamese refugees while their home villages are being secured for GVN control.
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An analysis of the manner in which the Mexican government has achieved macroeconomic stability in spite of the seemingly inaccurate and crude information and policy instruments at its disposal. This stability is due, in part, to the public expenditu...
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Two models of an employee's search for work, using some results from the theory of optimal stopping rules. Included are an optimal search policy for a simple model of the search process, a more general model of unemployment (which considers the antic...
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Author comments on contributions to the balanced budget multiplier theorem.
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Discusses a practical framework for more positive management control of exploratory development programs and certain applied research programs.
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No stable outcome normally exists with vote trading; the author points out flaws in James S. Coleman's social welfare function model.
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A survey of South Africa's economic development in the context of the internal and external political factors that have influenced its development and will affect its future. Despite South Africa's rapid economic development during the past 50 years...
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