World development report 1979

The 1979 World Development Report, along with its statistical annex, is the second in a series of annual reports designed to provide a comprehensive, continuing assessment of global development issues. This year's report emphasizes issues of employment, industrialization and urbanization in developing countries and discusses the policies necessary to pursue the twin objectives of growth and poverty alleviation. Structural transformation is particularly important for middle income countries. In dealing with the appropriate policies to be associated with structural changes, this report analyzes the processes of industrialization, urbanization, and the sectoral deployment of labor. The challenges identified, analyzed, and presented for consideration are: i) creation of job opportunities for an additional half billion people that will join the labor force in the developing countries by 2000; ii) accommodation of an additional one billion people in the same time perspective in the urban areas of the developing countries in socially acceptable and economically productive conditions; iii) creation of an international trade environment that is supportive of the development efforts; and iv) significant steps to the elimination of absolute poverty.

ix, 188 p.

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