First Published in 1975. These essays cover diverse topics on questions of employment, unemployment and income distribution in the Third World. The justification for collecting them into a single volume arises from the recent identification of the problem of employment in developing countries with that of income distribution.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Some Aspects of Unemployment in Urban India, J. Krishnamurty; Chapter 2 Income Distribution, Demand Structure and Employment: The Case of Peru, Adolfo Figueroa; Chapter 3 A Model of Growth and Employment in the Open Dualistic Economy: The Cases of Korea and Taiwan, John C. H. Fei, Gustav Ranis; Chapter 4 Economic Development, Structural Change and Employment Potential, Mahmood A. Zaidi, Sudhin K. Mukhopadhyay; Chapter 5 The Neoclassical Employment Model Applied to Ghanaian Manufacturing, Michael Roemer; Chapter 6 The Employment Effects of Wage Changes in Poor Countries, Frances Stewart, John Weeks; Chapter 7 Skill Acquisition in the Imformal Sector of an African Economy: The Kenya Case, Kenneth J. King; Chapter 8 The Relation between Tourism and Employment in Kenya and Tanzania, Walter Elkan; Chapter 9 Class, Caste and Community of South Indian Industrialists: An Examination of the Horatio Alger Model, E. Wayne Nafziger; Chapter 10 Education, Individual Earnings and Earnings Distribution, Keith Hinchliffe; Chapter 11 New Seeds and Income Distribution in Bangladesh, Douglas V. Smith;