Optimization Models for Planning Economic Development.

Abstract

In recent years, more and more countries have experimented with quantitative methods as a way to design short term and long term plans, and to evaluate the impacts of investment and other policies on the future development of their economies. Optimization models have proved useful in several fields of economics, such as economic growth and development planning, urban and regional economics, agricultural and energy economics, etc. The purpose of this paper is to formulate optimization models that can be applied fruitfully for economy-wide planning, sectoral planning, and project evaluation. It is an attempt at synthesizing the different models encountered in the literature, and at describing some of the difficulties inherent to this approach. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA039165

Entities

People

  • Silvia Pariente

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agriculture
  • Business Administration
  • Case Studies
  • Computer Programming
  • Cost Benefit Analysis
  • Costs
  • Economic Development
  • Economics
  • Flow Network
  • Governments
  • Investments
  • Linear Programming
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Mathematical Programming
  • Money
  • Operations Research
  • Optimization

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  • Economics
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Theoretical Analysis.