Towards Sustainable Development, 2nd Edition: Essays on System Analysis of National Policy (2nd edition)

By Khalid Saeed, Ph.D.

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Part I: Conceptual Foundations

  1. Government support for economic agendas in developing countries: a behavioral model
  2. Wage determination, income distribution and the design of change
  3. A re-evaluation of the effort to alleviate poverty and hunger
  4. An attempt to determine criteria for sensible rates of use of material resources
  5. An 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. The dynamics of collegial systems in the developing countries

Part II: Concepts Extended

  1. The world hunger problem, do we really understand it?
  2. Managing technology for development: a systems perspective
  3. Entrepreneurship and innovation: a search for an appropriate model for developing countries

Part III: Case Studies

  1. Public policy and rural poverty: a system dynamics analysis of a social change effort in Pakistan
  2. The role of credit in a rural economy: the case of Thailand
  3. Sustaining economic growth with a nonrenewable natural resource: the case of oil-dependent Indonesia
  4. The dynamics of indebtedness in the developing countries: the case of the Philippines
  5. Food self-sufficiency in Vietnam: a search for a viable solution
  6. The dynamics of water policy in southwestern Saudi Arabia
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