A Huge Marketing Research Task—Birth Control

1968 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-27
Author(s):  
Julian L Simon
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Less Developed Countries ◽  
Research Task

Increasing the amount of family planning in less-developed countries is crucial to their economic development and is basically a marketing job. Much important marketing research has been done in this area; its history is described here. But much more needs to be done.

Analysis on the Overall Characteristics and Laws of Economic Development

2011 ◽  
Vol 225-226 ◽  
pp. 174-177
Author(s):  
Yue Huang
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Less Developed Countries ◽  
Information Economy ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economics Model ◽  
Economical Development

In light of current world economics heading towards a direction that demands a refurbished theoretical guidance, Huang, Mu and Huang’s (1990, 1991) “Overall Development of Global Economics” model - also affectionately known as the "4-ways, 2-forms" hypothesis - serves as a research guideline and a basic framework of economical development problems. Economical development throughout the history of mankind has experienced three phases, each phase bearing its own characteristics. While today’s developing countries linger in the era of nature driven self-sufficiency, developed countries have surged ahead into a phase of post-information economy where information technology serves as the backbone of Information Economic Era. At present, the financial disparities between nations often and inevitably produce conflicts driven by socio-economical differences and the resultant ideologies. What are the orientations in economic development for less developed countries, developing countries and developed countries? Why does conflict between them arise and what causes this? How can they be resolved? These have become focal issues of concern among economist.

Swings of the Pendulum: A Review of Theory and Practice in Development Economics

2000 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.J. Kondonassis ◽  
A.G. Malliaris ◽  
T.O. Okediji
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Development Economics ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Less Developed Countries ◽  
Current State ◽  
Planning Strategies ◽  
Country Specific

The first purpose of this paper is to reveal some insights offered by our experiences in theorizing about development economics and in doing so to shed some light on the current state of economic development. The second purpose of this paper is to review some practices of economic development planning. These practices have initially followed swings in antithetical positions. Yet, it will be argued that eventually development practices have followed a synthetic or evolutionary process. Some of the findings of the paper include that theories and policies have a time and place; that development planning strategies must recognize both the economic and non economic characteristics of less developed countries; that development planning strategies should be country specific.

scholarly journals Why Evangelical Christians Are Supporting International Family Planning

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wiley Henry Mosley
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Less Developed Countries ◽  
Evangelical Christians ◽  
Christian Organizations ◽  
Unintended Pregnancies ◽  
The World ◽  
And Child Health

The article by Monique and Jeffery Wubbenhorst asks the question—Should Evangelical Christian Organizations Support International Family Planning?1 The article’s response to this question shows a lack of understanding of the fundamentals of population dynamics in the modern world as well as of the critical role contraceptives play in preventing unintended pregnancies and abortions and promoting maternal and child health. These errors are compounded by selective citation and misrepresentation of the evidence in the scientific literature. This commentary seeks to provide a balanced view of the evidence and correct several unfounded assertions in order to document why evangelical Christians and Christian organizations are, in fact, providing family planning services around the world. Specific points addressed are as follows: fundamentals of the global demographic transition including how the contraceptive revolution has slowed world population growth; the social, economic, and cultural forces driving couples to choose to control their fertility for the welfare of their families; the critical role of contraceptive practice in preventing unintended pregnancies and abortions as well as directly promoting safe motherhood and child health; the evidence that women and couples in  less-developed countries desire to control their fertility as attested by the measurement of unmet need for family planning; and the reason why failing to provide poor women and couples in  less-developed countries who want to control their fertility with the information and contraceptive methods of their choice is likely to lead to unintended pregnancies and more abortions.  Christian health professionals and organizations need to be in the world, working with people of all belief systems, since that is a powerful way for the world to be reached with the love of Jesus and the gospel of salvation.

scholarly journals The socio-economic history of Lithuania from the 16th to the 19th century (until 1861) from the perspective of economic development concepts

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-90
Author(s):  
Darius Žiemelis
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Less Developed Countries ◽  
Immanuel Wallerstein ◽  
The 19Th Century

The article is devoted to the presentation of the economic conceptions of the most influential non-Marxist (Karl Bücher, Max Weber) and neo-Marxists (Witold Kula, Immanuel Wallerstein) disclosing their analytical value in the investigations of the typologization of Lithuania‘s social economic history in the 16th-19th centuries (up to 1861). It is established that K. Bücher’s and M. Weber’s conceptions of economic development are best suited to analyze the qualitative changes in the organization of the economic life of the most developed countries in Western Europe (primarily – England) rather than the socio-economic reality of the less developed countries. For the research of the latter better suited are the Marxist (W. Kula‘s model of the feudal economy) and the neo-Marxist (I. Wallerstein’s capitalist world-system conception) concepts analyzing the economic development of less developed countries. The typological diagnosis of Lithuania‘s social economic history in the 16th-19th centuries (up to 1861) is presented.

International Agencies and Economic Development: An Overview

1968 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 432-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Asher
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The Political ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Less Developed Countries ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
International Agencies ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Political Realm

Unctad I, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development held in Geneva in the spring of 1964, marked a major milestone in international concern with and approaches to the problems of less developed countries. The principal achievements of this mammoth, contentious, allegedly economic gathering, however, were in the political realm. Economic issues of great importance were raised but not resolved. Instead they were consigned for study and consideration to the elaborate continuing machinery born at Geneva, as well as to various previously established agencies, and eventually to the agenda for UNCTAD II, convened in New Delhi in early 1968.

Varieties of Compressed Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 113-138
Author(s):  
D. Hugh Whittaker ◽  
Timothy J. Sturgeon ◽  
Toshie Okita ◽  
Tianbiao Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Global Value Chains ◽  
The State ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Less Developed Countries ◽  
Large Market ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Do So

Chapter 5 explores the ways in which less-developed countries experience the era-related effects of compressed development and try to cope with them. Chapter 4 compared late-developer Japan and compressed-developer China, but countries with poor or mixed records of economic development also face the opportunities and constraints of compression, and must do so with institutions, policies, and industries which emerged under prior conditions. Large-market less-developed countries such as Brazil, India, and even China face the era effects of compression, with legacies that are often poorly suited and sometimes antithetical to the demands of global value chains and technology ecosystems. Discontinuities and differences across sectors further complicate the role of the state in the era of compressed development.

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