Study week on the econometric approach to development planning

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Identifikator:: 1824422792

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217476

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Title:: Study week on the econometric approach to development planning

Place of publication:: Amsterdam [u.a.]

Publisher:: North-Holland Publ. Co. [u.a.]

Year of publication:: 1965

Scope:: XLVII, 1259 S.; graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: The economic framework of regional planning / Jan Tinbergen, Nederlandsche Economische Hoogeschool Rotterdam - Nederland

Collection:: Economics Books

SEMAINE D'ÉTUDE SUR LE ROLE DE L'ANALYSE ECONOMETRIOUE ETC. 23C made in the previous sector may be considered preparatory remarks to the application of one or the other of these keys. Clearly there are more possibilities [3]. Mathematically the simpler key is the one where we assume an imperfect market and finite elasticities of substitution between the imports from alternative regions. 10. The preceding sections are a sketch only of a type of model which may be used as a framework for regional deve- lopment planning. The vague way in which it has been describ- ed illustrates the large number of possibilities of adapting any concrete model to the particular structure of the country it has to serve. Thus, the number of regions and their frontiers, the number and nature of sectors and their distribution over re- gional, national and international sectors may be so chosen as to approach reality as much as possible. Even so hardly all the coefficients it contains will be available from statistical measurement and some of them will have to be chosen rather arbitrarily. This applies especially to the substitution elastici- ‘ies for the products whose transportation costs cannot be ne- glected. Probably it also applies to whatever cases of indivisi- bilities will be introduced. Even when the model has been established another choice has to be made: the one of the type of development policy one wants to analyse. It is necessary to follow the habits developed in the theory of economic policy and to define the aims and means of such a policy. The aims may either be chosen as a set of numerically given targets or as the maximization of some social welfare function. For regional policy the welfare function will depend also on regional variables such as income per head of the various regions and the most common policies usually imply a reduction of the income differences. Many specifica- lions are possible. To laymen such criteria as first raising the income per head of the poorest region and after a certain pro- portion to the next poorest region has been reached raising the "181 Tinbergen - pag. ~

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