The authors defend the basic needs approach to economic development which has been the subject of controversy and suspicion among many groups.

First Things First: Meeting Basic Human Needs in the Developing Countries (A World Bank Research Publication)

Business & Money

Streeten, Paul

Economics

Oxford University Press

<p>The authors defend the 'basic needs' approach to economic development which has been the subject of controversy and suspicion among many groups.</p>

First Things First: Meeting Basic Human Needs in the Developing Countries

World Bank

The frontiers of development studies

Macmillan

The Frontiers of Development Studies

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

<p>The starting point of Paul Streeten's book is the dilemma, faced by policy makers in many developing countries: should the price of food be high, in order to stimulate production, or low, in order to prevent poor food buyers from starving? The author goes on to discuss the role of prices in the light of these and other objectives. 'It is the work of one of our wisest scholars on what I consider to be the key policy issue for economic development in the 1980s...this provocative essay will be required reading for anyone working on agricultural price policy.' C.Peter Timmer 'It provides solid and practical guidance to scholars and decision-makers. It is lucid, balanced and, above all, useful.' Robert Klitgaard 'Paul Streeten is well known for his gift of explaining the pros and cons of difficult policy issues in a clear, simple and realistic way, appealing to policy-makers, students and the wider development community, as well as to academic colleagues. This gift is fully displayed in his new book, and readers are bound to emerge with a better awareness of the conflicts and policy reforms which are involved.' H.W.Singer</p>

What Price Food?: Agricultural Price-Policies in Developing Countries

What price food?: Agricultural price policies in developing countries

John Wiley&Sons

The starting point of Paul Streeten's book is the dilemma, faced by policy makers in many developing countries: should the price of food be high, in order to stimulate production, or low, in order to prevent poor food buyers from starving? The author goes on to discuss the role of prices in the light of these and other objectives.

What Price Food?: Agricultural Price Policies in Developing Countries

Cornell University Press

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