Economic growth and employment

In the developing countries, and especially in the ECAFE region, the task of seeking economic growth through rationalizing the factor mix and modernizing the state of technique while simultaneously seeking to improve living conditions by assuring the population at large a higher real income level has raised a number of fundamental conceptual and empirical issues. This chapter attempts to review some of these issues, to place them in a logical framework for further discussion, and to suggest a feasible and consistent policy orientation through which the developing countries of the ECAFE region may cope with the employment problem within the scope of their commitment to accelerating and sustaining economic growth.

Sustainable Development Goals:

Decent Work and Economic Growth

Reduced Inequalities