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From The World Bank Group Documents and Reports Archive World Development Report 1979 PUB 2534 Contents and Definitions Introduction Part I: Development Prospects and International Policy Issues 2. Prospects for Development - Recents trends and implications for the future - Alternative Scenarios - Implications for the Alleviation of Poverty 3. International Policy Issues - The world trade environment - External debt and capital flows - Energy Part II: Structural Change and Development Policy 4. Employment Trends and Issues - Scope and nature of the employment challenge - Development strategies for expanding employment and improving skills - Labour markets policies - Population planning 5. Industrialisation - Shared patterns and problems - The role of agriculture - Government support for industrialisation - Foreign trade and competition 6. Urbanization: Patterns and Policies - Key features of urbanization in developing countries - National spatial development: determinants and policies - Policies for efficient and equitable growth of cities Part III: Country Development Experience and Issues 7. Growth and Equity in Semi-industrialized Nations - Development patterns in semi-industrialized countries - Growth and equity: the record - Approaches to poverty elimination - Sustaining economic growth in a changing world 8. Development in Primary Producing Countries - Development issues in mineral economies - Structural change in predominantly agricultural nations 9. Conclusiones - Policies to increase productive employment and alleviate poverty - Urbanization: priorities for action - Improving the international environment for development Annex: World Development Indicators: Index of Tables Tables Technical notes Bibliography and data sources

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