Mandal, Purnendu with Eric F. Wolstenholme, "National Development Policies for Developing Countries", 1985
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The work described in this paper is an extension of earlier work by the same authors on analysis of national development planning. A brief description is presented here of the system dynamics model developed for this earlier work as a basis for explaining its recent application to development policy design. A taxonomy of development policies is presented and the results of analysing seven policies, within an adaptive model framework, are presented, which are aimed at improving and achieving both growth and equity. Each policy is examined under conditions of continuous proportional control and discrete control based on a sector criticality.