Third world poverty : new strategies for measuring development progress / edited by William Paul McGreevey

The essays in this volume form an integral part of a larger intellectual in quiry sponsored by The Asia Society, New York, during the period 1976-1979. The project, which was made possible through a grant to the society by the Agency for International Development (AID), consisted of a series of seminars and workshops dealing with the problem of measuring progress toward alleviating poverty in the less-developed countries. It in volved some seventy-three scholars, development specialists, and policy makers from the Americas, Asia, and Africa.

The rationale for this undertaking was to identify some of the principal substantive and methodological issues involved in measuring development performance. At four meetings, participants commented on successive drafts of chapters 1 through 4 of this book. Chapter 5 is based directly on the proceedings of the workshops on time use and data needs. We are especially indebted to William Butz, for the time-use workshop. The workshop participants included the following:

Issues in Measuring Development Progress (New York, 19 November 1976): James Brown, Shahid Javed Burki, Carmel Chiswick, Paul Demeny, Gary Fields, Charles Frank, Constance Freeman, Mary Kritz, Daniel Lerner, Robert S. Meehan, Robert Muscat, John Newmann, David Sills, Hadley Smith, Herbert D. Spivack, Abraham Weisblat.

New Measures for New Development Goals in South and Southeast Asia (Singapore, 21-25 November 1977): Manuel S. Alba, Jacques Amyiot, Ed mund Auchter, C.V. Bavanandan, James Brown, Gary Fields, Sajuti Hasi buan, Muhammed Hussain, Huynh Kim Khanh, Earl L. McFarland, Jr., Medhi Krongkaew, Chukuka Okonjo, Vicente B. Paqueo, Bernardino A. Perez, V.V. Bhanoji Rao, Ralph Retzlaff, G. Edward Schuh, Loretta Makasiar Sicat, Shrenatt Singh, Jeanne Sinquefield, Sam Suharto, Edita A. Tan, Tat-Wai Tan, Benjamin White.

Time Use Data: Policy Uses and Methods of Collection (New York, 15 September 1978): Robert O. Bartram, Nancy Birdsall, James Brown, William Butz, Mead Cain, Dov Chernichovsky, Robert Evenson, Adrienne Germain, Kathleen Heffron, Robert Johnston, F. Thomas Juster, Timothy King, Mary Kritz, Eva Mueller, Moni Nag, William Seltzer, Guy Standing, Abraham Weisblat, Kathryn Walker.

Data Needs for the Diagnosis of Poverty in Developing Countries (Washington, D.C., 15 December 1978): Nancy Birdsall, William Butz, Mead Cain, John C. Caldwell, Pat Caldwell, Ramesh Chander, Allen Goldstein, Benjamin Gura, Gillian Hart, Timothy King, Anne Kubisch, Maureen Lewis, Harold Lubell, Oey Astra Meesook, Charles Montrie,