This Book Answers Critics Of The Basic Needs Approach, Views This Approach As A Logical Step In The Evolution Of Economic Analysis And Development Policy, And Presents A Clearsighted Interpretation Of The Issues. Based On The Actual Experience Of Various Countries-their Successes And Failures-the Book Is A Distillation Of World Bank Studies Of The Operational Implications Of Meeting Basic Needs. It Explores The Feasibility Of Implementing Such An Approach As Well As Ways Of Measuring Performance. Remembrance Of Studies Past : Retracing First Steps / Lord Bauer -- Development Economics : The Early Years / Colin Clark -- A Dissenter's Confession : The Strategy Of Economic Development Revisited / Albert O. Hirschman -- Development Economics In The 1950s / Arthur Lewis -- International Inequality And Foreign Aid In Retrospect / Gunnar Myrdal -- Five Stages In My Thinking On Development / Raul Prebisch -- Natura Facit Saltum : Analysis Of The Disequilibrium / Paul N. Rosenstein-rodan -- Development : The Political Economy Of The Marshallian Long Period / Walt Whitman Rostow -- The Terms Of Trade Controversy And The Evolution Of Soft Financing : Early Years In The U.n. / H.w. Singer -- Development Cooperation As A Learning Process / Jan Tinbergen. Lord Bauer ... [et Al.] ; Edited By Gerald M. Meier And Dudley Seers. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.