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This paper examines how poverty alleviation can be incorporated as a policy objective in developing country macroeconomic models, analogous to the unemployment objective in industrial country applications. Three elements are involved: selection of the appropriate poverty measure, establishment of linkages with the rest of the macro model, and assessment of how the policy mix is affected. The IMF monetary model, which underpins its widespread adjustment programs, is reworked to include these elements. Some proposals are made to facilitate compliance with the balance of payments constraint, while restraining the extent to which the incidence of poverty rises from stabilization induced causes.

This book examines important issues on the relationship between economics and political values or ideologies, by analysing the main branches of economic theory in an historical perspective and their impact on economic policy.The book is structured as follows:Part I: Positive Economics?1. The Positive-Normative Distinction in the History of Economic ThoughtPart II: Policy Objectives2. The Objectives of Economic Policies: An Historical Review

The attempt to give international society a minimum of government and order through the establishment of a League of Nations has proved only moderately successful. It is true that states have begun to play politics in Geneva, but they have not ceased the older and grimmer struggle for power in the world at large. The state is still today, as far as its international relations are concerned, primarily a military organization. Its specific aims in its struggle for power may be many, but among them the geographic objectives, the attainment of which will increase the state's relative military strength, are the oldest and the most persistent.There are several types of geographic objectives, but in this analysis we shall concern ourselves with the strategic geographic objectives of foreign policy. Before we attempt to analyze these specific objectives, however, it is essential to consider briefly the phenomenon of expansion as such, which may be defined as a mere advancement of frontier in contrast to the conquest of a particular bit of territory for strategic reasons.