Articles by Samuel Paul

Relevance and Limits Samuel Paul The need for an increased rote for the private or nongovernmental sector in the economy has figured prominently in recent debates in economic and political circles in India. The issues involved, according to the author, are such that an ideological or emotional rather than an analytical approach tends to dominate the arguments. Given this background and the growing interest in privatisation, this paper seeks to examine the subject in a global perspective with a view to understanding its relevance, instruments and limits.

National and Global Interventions Samuel Paul This paper examines recent trends in the policies of less developed countries (LDCs) towards transnational corporations (TNCs) and the international concerns in regard to the operation of TNCs round the world. Among the major issues analysed by the author are recent developments in foreign private investment, major international interventions to influence the behaviour of NTCs and the new responses of TNCs to the changing policies and controls of host governments. These issues should be of interest to policy-makers and entrepreneurs in India which is no longer just a host country to TNCs but is emerging us a home country for a growing number of TNCs of Indian origin. Towards the end of the paper, likely trends in the policies of LDC governments towards TNCs and their implications are highlighted.

Development Programmes for the Poor Do Strategies Make a Difference?
Samuel Paul Ashok Subramanian Special programmes for the 'weaker sections' of the population have found an important place in the Five-Year Plans since the Seventies. The increased plan allocations for these programmes were a response to the growing criticism that benefits of economic progress were not reaching the poor. The major promise of these programmes is that benefits will flow to the weaker sections because of the specificity of the target groups and of the activities chosen.

Industrialisation: Goals without Policies Samuel Paul World Industry since 1960 : Progress and Prospects, UNIDO; United Nations, 1979; pp 422.
THE Lima Declaration and Plan of Action on Industrial Development and Co-operation had set the target for the share of industrial output of developing countries to be at least 25 per cent by the year 2000. The Third General Conference of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) being held in New Delhi this month will review the progress made by the developing countries in achieving the long-term goals set by the Lima Declaration. The document under review was prepared by the UNIDO secretariat as a basis for discussion by the conference of this issue and also to analyse the basic trends in production, trade, employment, technology, and finance relating to the industrial sector. For obvious reasons, UN reports generally confine themselves to surveys, analyses and projections and shy away from proposing policy choices and recommendations for action. This document upholds the UN tradition admirably.

Economics of Public Services Samuel Paul The Economics of Public Services (ed) M S Feldstein and Robert P Inman; Proceedings of a Conference by the International Economic Association at Turin, Italy; Macmillan, London, 1977; pp 529,