Methodological Survey of the Application of Input-Output in Developing Countries

The present preoccupation with the Economics of Growth-motivated largely by the problems of the so-called developing countries-has given rise, understandably, to a revival of capital theoretic controversies. An important outcome of the current debate in this connection appears to be a growing awareness of the inadequacies of certain kinds of aggregative analytical devices and an increasing movement towards the adoption of more general, economy-wide, interdependent, disaggregative models, to investigate theoretical and empirical problems of economic development.