Tripartite World Conference on Employment, Income Distribution, and Social Progress and the International Division of Labour, Geneva, June 1976: Basic needs and national employment strategiesInternational Labour Office Compilation of conference papers on employment, income distribution, social change and the international division of labour - covers the concept of basic needs and the role of national level employment policies, the idea of a new international economic order and the problem of trade adjustment assistance, the appropriate choice of technology, migration and brain drain, etc. References and statistical tables. Conference held in Geneva 1976 June 4 to 17. |
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achieved Africa agrarian agriculture appropriate technology Asia average Bariloche model basic needs strategy basic-needs calorie capital capital-intensive cent collective farms consumption cost demand developing countries developing regions economic growth employed employment problem enterprises equipment estimates Europe Exogenous export farms foreign exchange GNP/capita Green Revolution growth rates higher housing important income distribution income targets increase India industrialisation inflation investment labour force labour-intensive large-scale Latin America low income lowest income groups manpower measures medium income ment minimum Moscow Oceania organised output planning poor Population millions poverty poverty line production programme Projected employment quintile Rate of growth raw materials redistribution relatively role rural areas scale scenario B-0 sector small-scale industry social socialist South Africa Soviet SSSR structure supply surplus Table technical techniques tion trade underemployment unemployed urban USSR utilisation wage workers