Human resources, employment and development: proceedings of sixth world congress of the International Economic Association held in Mexico city, 1980

The Fifth Congress of the International Economic Association had concerned itself with the world's physical resources and their implications for growth and development. It was natural that the Sixth Congress should go on to examine the problems of human development, regarding the human participants not primarily as factors in development and production, but more importantly as the ultimate beneficiaries from development.

This first of the five volumes in which the work of the Congress is being published contains a review of the work of the Congress as a whole by Professor Shigeto Tsuru and four broad-ranging addresses to the plenary sessions of the Congress. In the first of these, Professor Józef Pajestka, drawing on the thinking and experience of Poland, describes the ways in which, in a planned economy, the strategy should be made to ensure that man as a beneficiary is considered at every stage. Pierre Maillet of France and Armando Labra of Mexico comment on his arguments.