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Characteristics of Successful and Unsuccessful Organization Development
(Sage Publications, 1976)
A comparison between 11 organizations with successful OD efforts and 14 organizations with unsuccessful efforts reveals characteristics identifiable with each category. Eight major clusters of characteristics served as the ...
Some Doubts about Kenya's Future as an Exporter of Manufatures
(1973-10)
Even for a less developed country, Kenya is heavily involved in foreign trade. Its visible exports amount to more than one fourth of the total output of the "monetized" part of the Kenyan economy. Moreover, the Kenyan ...
An Econometric Model of Development: Comment
(1970)
In the December 1968 issue of The American Economic Review, Adelman and Morris present a cross-section analysis of the recent growth experience of underdeveloped countries. Their "econometric model of development" seeks ...
Planning Public Health Expenditures with Special Reference to Morocco
(1972-04)
This paper attempts to develop some techniques which may be useful in health planning. Ministries of Public Health are allotted substantial sums of money in the budgetary process, and it is obviously desirable to determine ...
Dependence as an Explanation of Underdevelopment: A Critique
(1977-02)
This essay seeks to clarify the relationship between dependence and underdevelopment by examining critically some of the major themes in the literature on dependency theory. Three principal arguments are evaluated: (1) ...
An Evaluation of Short-Term Forecasts of Coffee and Cocoa
(1973)
Predictive performance of short-term forecasts of production is evaluated using a technique which minimizes the average squared difference between actual and forecast values. Forecasting errors are decomposed into two ...
A Constant-Market-Share Look at African Exports in the 1960s
(1973-06)
In this paper, the growth of exports during the 1960s of particular products of particular African nations to particular OECD destinations is divided into the growth that would have occurred had the source maintained a ...
Labor Heterogeneity and Rice Production in Malaysia
(1977-12)
Estimates of an unrestricted translog production function are used to test whether a consistent aggregate exists for male and female labor in rice production in the Muda river valley of Malaysia. It is shown that the ...
Animation Rurale and Encadrement Technique in the Ivory Coast
(1974-09)
The strategy for increasing output in savannah regions of the Ivory Coast has gone through several phases: a period of coercion in the war years; government support of cooperatives in the pre- and immediate post-Independence ...