Basic needs
Subtitle: Planning and evaluation
By: Detlef Schwefel.
Series: Occasional papers of the German Development Institute; No. 50
Publisher: German Development Institute
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Translation of: Grundbedürfnisse und Entwicklungspolitik
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Social indicators.; Quality of life.; Social policy.; Basic needs.; Economic policy.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 323-358.
Table of contents: title: Summary; title: The Discussion in the Ivory Tower or The Rootlessness of the Needs Concept; title: --- Psychological Dead-ends; title: --- The Absence of Needs in Sociology; title: --- Economics without Utility; title: --- The State as Optimizer of Utility?; title: The Discussion in the East or The Rediscovered Basic Law of Socialism; title: --- The Basic Economic Law; title: --- The Communist Principle of Distribution; title: --- Needs Theory; title: --- Needs and Planning of Economy; title: The Discussion in the West or Reflections on Social Indicators and (E)Quality of Life; title: --- Against the GNPism; title: --- The Indicator Concept; title: --- The Social Indicator Movement; title: --- On the Utility of Indicators; title: --- Quality and Equality of Life; title: The Discussion in the South or Reflections on National Food and Nutrition Policies; title: --- Traditional Nutrition Programmes; title: --- The "Revolutionary Reversal" of the Nutrition Problem; title: --- Towards a Food and Nutrition Policy; title: --- National Food and Nutrition Planning; title: --- National Food and Nutrition Policy; title: Resume and Intermezzo; title: --- The Simplicity of Needs; title: --- Need Taxonomies; title: --- 'Real' Needs; title: --- Rational Norms and Budgets; title: --- Summary and Outlook; title: Goal Function or Operationalization of Basic Needs by Means of Rational Consumption Budgets; title: --- Macro-Performance Analysis: Assessing Social Progress with Social Indicators; title: --- Needs-Analysis: Assessing the Basic Needs of the Mass of the Population; title: --- A Rational Food Budget; title: --- Rational Budgets for Time and Consumption; title: Planning or Health Planning as an Example of Value-in-use Planning; title: --- An Information System for Integrated Health Planning; title: --- Physical, Mental and Social Well-being as the Goal Function; title: --- Selection and Weighting of (Health) Policies; title: --- Health Planning as Trans-sectoral Planning; title: Evaluation or Constructive Plea against Socio-monetarism; title: --- Political, Methodical and Scientific Objections; title: --- Employment and Need Satisfaction; title: --- Production and Need Satisfaction; title: Annex; title: Notes; title: Literature