Towards sustainable development : essays on system analysis of national policy /

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Main Author: Saeed, Khalid.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Brookfield USA : Ashgate, 1998.
Edition:2nd ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I.
  • Conceptual Foundations
  • Introduction: Sustainable development, old conundrums, new discords
  • 1.
  • Government support for economic agendas in developing countries: a behavioral model
  • 2.
  • Wage determination, income distribution and the design of change
  • 3.
  • re-evaluation of the effort to alleviate poverty and hunger
  • 4.
  • attempt to determine criteria for sensible rates of use of material resources
  • 5.
  • attempt to operationalize the recommendations of the "limits to growth" study to sustain future of mankind
  • 6.
  • Technological development in a dual economy: alternative policy levers for economic development
  • 7.
  • dynamics of collegial systems in the developing countries
  • Pt. II.
  • Concepts Extended
  • 8.
  • world hunger problem, do we really understand it?
  • 9.
  • Managing technology for development: a systems perspective
  • 10.
  • Entrepreneurship and innovation: a search for an appropriate model for developing countries
  • Pt. III.
  • Case Studies
  • 11.
  • Public policy and rural poverty: a system dynamics analysis of a social change effort in Pakistan
  • 12.
  • role of credit in a rural economy: the case of Thailand
  • 13.
  • Sustaining economic growth with a nonrenewable natural resource: the case of oil-dependent Indonesia
  • 14.
  • dynamics of indebtedness in the developing countries: the case of the Philippines
  • 15.
  • Food self-sufficiency in Vietnam: a search for a viable solution
  • 16.
  • dynamics of water policy in southwestern Saudi Arabia.