Current trends in development planning

This book offers highly useful contempo rary readings on a wide spectrum of topics. The contributions in this edited volume range from indepth theoretical and philosophical aspects, rationalities and applied strategies of development in the modern era, to techno logical workshop experiment in development oriented micro-climate. Spatial organisation models, technology and energy development, human fertility control, animators of entre preneurship, decentralisation styles, spatial econo-social development differentials, ecolo gical and environmental challenges, etc., an interesting reading material. The book presents useful and informative original contributions on trends of industrial capital intensity, labour participation, foreign colla borations, agrarian transition, rural develop ment, resource analyses, and mobilisation challenges of governments of micro and national levels.

The book is likely to add plentifully to the current advanced stock of knowledge on issues of development economics.