Human Resources, Employment and Development Volume 5: Developing Countries : Proceedings of the Sixth World Congress of the International Economic Association held in Mexico City, 1980

The general theme of the sixth World Congress of the International Economic Association was 'Human Resources, Employment and Development'. Inevitably in the present state of the world economy the main stress was on employment. The congress, after hearing four addresses in plenary sessions, broke into six working groups to discuss particular issues. This fifth and final volume contains a selection of the papers presented in the section that was concerned with the special problems in developing countries. The work of this section had been planned by a committee under the chairmanship of Professor Samir Amin (Egypt). He provides an introduction which is itself a critical commentary on the advanced world's relationship to the world of the periphery. The first group of five papers are concerned with the special employment problems of these countries. Professors Brun and Diaz (Mexico), make a case-study of that country. Ester Boserup (Denmark) provides an historical perspective. Tamas Szentes (Hungary) is concerned with the structural defects of the countries of the periphery. Marie Angelique Savane reminds us of the entry of women into the labour markets of countries in which they have not in the past participated. Gautam Mathur (India) discusses employment and manpower generation. Further groups of papers look at other urgent issues. Keith Griffin, with Jeffrey James (UK), and Dharam Ghai (ILO) are concerned with income distribution and the effects of maldistribution on the patterns of consumption and industrial production. Louis Emmerij (Netherlands) takes one back, as do others, to the basic-needs approach. Three very important papers by Michael Lipton (UK), D. N. Baser with A. K. Sundaram (India) and Rikard Lang with Gorazd Nikic (Yugoslavia) tackle the problems of how the informal traditional sector, and in particular the small family enterprise, should be fitted into the economy and enabled to play its full part in the strategy of national development. A final v vi Contents Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Employment and Development: the Mexican Case....Pages 3-19 Demographic Pressure, Growth and Productivity in an Historical Perspective....Pages 20-32 The Structural Defects of Periphery Economies....Pages 33-51 The Employment of Women with Social Change and Freedom of Women: The Case of Africa....Pages 52-66 Employment and Manpower Generation....Pages 67-93 Front Matter....Pages 95-95 Managing the Transition to Egalitarian Development....Pages 97-115 Income Distribution and Labour Utilisation Under Different Agrarian Systems....Pages 116-143 Front Matter....Pages 145-145 Basic Needs and Employment-oriented Strategies Reconsidered....Pages 147-169 Front Matter....Pages 171-171 Choice of Type of Industrialisation in Developing Countries....Pages 173-185 Front Matter....Pages 187-187 Family, Fungibility and Formality: Rural Advantages of Informal Non-farm Enterprise versus the Urban-formal State....Pages 189-242 The Urban Informal Sector: A Search for the Processes and Appropriate Strategies....Pages 243-264 Dispersion of Industrial Activities into Rural Areas and Employment....Pages 265-272 Front Matter....Pages 273-273 Immigrant workers in Europe....Pages 275-302 Back Matter....Pages 303-307