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The recommendations of international organizations such as the World Bank, ILO, OECD and FAO and comparable demands by critical social scientists evince a growing awareness that basic human needs should be made the point of departure and orientation for analyses, planning and evaluation. They betoken a decisive turning away from the conventional growth- and employment-oriented economic policies towards a strategy which is determined by basic needs.
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Schwefel, D. Basic needs, planning and policies. Intereconomics 14, 132–138 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02924554
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