Growth, Employment and Education:An Application of MuIticriteria Analysis to Pakistan

Hans de Krui Jk and Frank van Tongeren
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Hans de Krui Jk: Erasmus University, Rotterdam

The Pakistan Development Review, 1988, vol. 27, issue 4, 725-735

Abstract: Development planning is a multicriteria problem. Apart from economic goals (like economic growth, income distribution, employment, price stability, balance of payments, etc.) a set of basic human needs (like food, health, housing, clothing, education, etc.) has to be fulfilled within a limited time horizon. Of course, not all targets of economic policy can reach desirable levels within a plan period given scarce resources and trade-offs between goals and basic needs. Priorities have to be formulated and goals and needs have to be weighted against another. Multicriteria analysis can contribute to this weighing process by circumscribing feasible areas and by quantifying above mentioned trade-offs.

Date: 1988
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