Towards Sustainable Development, 2nd Edition

Essays on system analysis of national policy

Khalid Saeed

Contents

Preface to 2nd edition

Part 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. 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

8. The 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 the developing countries

Part III: Case Studies

11. Rural poverty and public policy: 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 non-renewable natural resource: the case of oil-dependent Indonesia

14. The dynamics of indebtedness in developing countries: the case of the Philippines

15. Food self sufficiency in Vietnam: a search for a viable solution

16. The dynamics of water policy in southwestern Saudi Arabia

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