Author: David L. Jessee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Unemployment and Underemployment in the Rural Sectors of the Less Developed Countries
Author: David L. Jessee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Deon Filmer
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 1464801088
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
This book focuses on how to improve the quality of jobs and meet the aspirations of youth in Sub-Saharan Africa. It finds that a strong foundation for human capital development can be key to boosting earnings, arguing for a balanced approach that builds skills and demand for labor.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 1464801088
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
This book focuses on how to improve the quality of jobs and meet the aspirations of youth in Sub-Saharan Africa. It finds that a strong foundation for human capital development can be key to boosting earnings, arguing for a balanced approach that builds skills and demand for labor.
A.I.D. Research and Development Abstracts
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Disguised Unemployment in Underdeveloped Areas
Author: Yong Sam Cho
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520311302
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The purpose of this book is to examine the accepted concepts and theories on surplus labor in underdeveloped agricultural economics, particularly in the literature on "disguised unemployment." By doing so, the author clears tha way toward finding a more valid theoretical concept of this vital subject, which is the core of potential economic and social development in the underdeveloped countries. The author, after establishing a more realistic and workable definition of surplus labor on the basis of a closer investigation of the extended family-clan-village system, so typical of the tradition-guided underdeveloped societies, proceeds to work out a method for measuring true surplus labor, with rural South Korea as a case example. Of particular interest is the author's distinction between two types of surplus labor: technical (open) idle labor and the tradition-directed (closed) idle labor. Thus having obtained quantitative data on the extent of underemployment in South Korea, the author continues with a discussion of policy implications in the employment structure of underdeveloped countries, and constructs a proposed program for the utilization of surplus labor, without the application of totalitarian methods, without waiting for the availability of additional capital from the outside, and without making a change in traditional instituions and a priori condition for the utilization of idle labor. This program calls for capital improvements within the agricultural area, financed by the agricultural sector itself, after it is shown through statistical data that capital improvements in agriculture yield quicker and greater results than in other sectors of the economy. The author also attempts to show how such a program would not only put to work a major part of unutilized labor on agricultural development projects, but would also pave the way toward a gradual dissolution of those social traditions and institutions that have been economically hampering and that have been, thereby, an important cause of perpetuating economic and social stagnation. The author also claims for his program the aded virtue of minimizing the social unrest that results from economic distress, thus safeguarding political stability within the framework of needed reform. The government of the Republic of Korea cooperated closely with the author in carrying out the research underlying this study. Basic statistical data were obtained through the cooperation of the research department of the Bank of Korea. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520311302
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The purpose of this book is to examine the accepted concepts and theories on surplus labor in underdeveloped agricultural economics, particularly in the literature on "disguised unemployment." By doing so, the author clears tha way toward finding a more valid theoretical concept of this vital subject, which is the core of potential economic and social development in the underdeveloped countries. The author, after establishing a more realistic and workable definition of surplus labor on the basis of a closer investigation of the extended family-clan-village system, so typical of the tradition-guided underdeveloped societies, proceeds to work out a method for measuring true surplus labor, with rural South Korea as a case example. Of particular interest is the author's distinction between two types of surplus labor: technical (open) idle labor and the tradition-directed (closed) idle labor. Thus having obtained quantitative data on the extent of underemployment in South Korea, the author continues with a discussion of policy implications in the employment structure of underdeveloped countries, and constructs a proposed program for the utilization of surplus labor, without the application of totalitarian methods, without waiting for the availability of additional capital from the outside, and without making a change in traditional instituions and a priori condition for the utilization of idle labor. This program calls for capital improvements within the agricultural area, financed by the agricultural sector itself, after it is shown through statistical data that capital improvements in agriculture yield quicker and greater results than in other sectors of the economy. The author also attempts to show how such a program would not only put to work a major part of unutilized labor on agricultural development projects, but would also pave the way toward a gradual dissolution of those social traditions and institutions that have been economically hampering and that have been, thereby, an important cause of perpetuating economic and social stagnation. The author also claims for his program the aded virtue of minimizing the social unrest that results from economic distress, thus safeguarding political stability within the framework of needed reform. The government of the Republic of Korea cooperated closely with the author in carrying out the research underlying this study. Basic statistical data were obtained through the cooperation of the research department of the Bank of Korea. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.
Economic-demographic Interactions in Agricultural Development
Author: Oded Stark
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251007013
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251007013
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Internal Migration in Developing Countries
Author: Michael P. Todaro
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Industries Without Smokestacks
Author: Richard S. Newfarmer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198821883
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Although manufacturing has played an important role in the growth of developing countries, Africa has lagged in this industry. This book argues that activities sharing the characteristics of manufacturing, including tourism and ICT, are beginning to play an important role in Africa, offering new opportunities for growth in coming decades.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198821883
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Although manufacturing has played an important role in the growth of developing countries, Africa has lagged in this industry. This book argues that activities sharing the characteristics of manufacturing, including tourism and ICT, are beginning to play an important role in Africa, offering new opportunities for growth in coming decades.
Promotion of Rural Employment for Poverty Reduction
Author:
Publisher: International Labour Organization
ISBN: 9789221194866
Category : Employment in foreign countries
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
This report adopts a decent work perspective to approach the challenge of promoting employment and reducing poverty in rural areas by examining issues of employment, social protection, rights and social dialogue in rural areas in an integrated way.
Publisher: International Labour Organization
ISBN: 9789221194866
Category : Employment in foreign countries
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
This report adopts a decent work perspective to approach the challenge of promoting employment and reducing poverty in rural areas by examining issues of employment, social protection, rights and social dialogue in rural areas in an integrated way.
Taxation and Unemployment
Author: Mr.Howell H. Zee
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1451974345
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
This paper reviews conceptual linkages between taxation and unemployment, available empirical evidence and country policies that may have a bearing on these linkages in the OECD and in a sample of developing and transitional economies, Fund policy advice on these issues, and tax policy options in addressing the unemployment problem. It concludes that the emphasis in policy should be placed on minimizing tax distortions, rather than on formulating activist tax policies to reduce unemployment.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1451974345
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
This paper reviews conceptual linkages between taxation and unemployment, available empirical evidence and country policies that may have a bearing on these linkages in the OECD and in a sample of developing and transitional economies, Fund policy advice on these issues, and tax policy options in addressing the unemployment problem. It concludes that the emphasis in policy should be placed on minimizing tax distortions, rather than on formulating activist tax policies to reduce unemployment.
IMF Staff papers
Author: International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1451956355
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This paper focuses on theoretical and policy issues posed by financial integration among industrial countries since the mid-1950s. The problems of measuring international financial integration and of estimating its trend over the years are also explored. The role of the Euro-dollar market, as a major financial intermediary that channels short-term funds between the money markets of the industrial countries, is examined first. An econometric analysis of factors influencing the Euro-dollar interest rate indicates that its movements are dominated by conditions in the United States and suggests a high degree of integration between the US and Euro-dollar capital markets. However, the results also lend some support to the view that the Euro-dollar rate is influenced by conditions in Europe, particularly by bursts of speculation. Since neither sterilization policies nor intervention in capital movements is likely to be entirely successful, highly integrated economies might also tend to determine their interest rates partly in the light of interest rate developments overseas.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1451956355
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This paper focuses on theoretical and policy issues posed by financial integration among industrial countries since the mid-1950s. The problems of measuring international financial integration and of estimating its trend over the years are also explored. The role of the Euro-dollar market, as a major financial intermediary that channels short-term funds between the money markets of the industrial countries, is examined first. An econometric analysis of factors influencing the Euro-dollar interest rate indicates that its movements are dominated by conditions in the United States and suggests a high degree of integration between the US and Euro-dollar capital markets. However, the results also lend some support to the view that the Euro-dollar rate is influenced by conditions in Europe, particularly by bursts of speculation. Since neither sterilization policies nor intervention in capital movements is likely to be entirely successful, highly integrated economies might also tend to determine their interest rates partly in the light of interest rate developments overseas.