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

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SEMAINE D'ÉTUDE SUR LE ROLE DE L’ANALYSE ECONOMETRIQUE ETC. 1245 have to be more sketchy even than the preceding sections. We will concentrate on two aspects, namely the possibilities of decentralization of policy decisions and the question of the time order in which decisions must be made. Both depend on the mathematical structure of the model describing the relationships between the unknowns, that is, the policy parameters or instru- ment variables [6]. Decentralization, either with regard to sectors or with regard to regions, will be possible whenever a number of sectoral or regional parameters appear in a set of equations not containing parameters of other sectors and re- gions and sufficient in number to solve for the unknowns con- cerned. If it so happens that after a decision on some instru- ments further instruments occur in the same position, decisions on the latter must be taken after decisions on the former. Since the structure of the equations (or, if we like, the matrix of their coefficients) does not only depend on the relationships between the variables but also on the role given to some of them, it depends on the target and instrument variables, that is, on the type of policy, what possibilities for decentralization and what necessities as for time order there are. A simple example may illustrate our point. If targets are set for regional incomes — a case different from the ones so far discussed — the production volume of regional industries may be derived at once, provided we can assume a direct relation between regional income and production of regional industries. Among the most fascinating and pressing problems oi sectoral-cum-regional planning is the one whict forms of decentralization — whether sectoral or regional and what order of decisions is optimal [2]. Models of the class discussed in this paper mav teach us about these questions 3 | Tinbergen - pag. 11

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