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Ghai, Dharam Pal was born on June 29, 1936 in Nairobi, Kenya. Son of Bastiram and Vidya (Vati) Ghai.
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Contents: What is a basic needs approach to development all about? by D.P. Ghai On the principles of quantifying and satisfying basic needs by D.P. Ghai and T. Alfthan Some normative aspects of a basic neeeds strategy by E.L.H. Lee Basic needs targets: An illustrative exercise in identification and quantification by A.R. Khan Production planning for basic needs by A.R. Khan
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Ghai, Dharam Pal was born on June 29, 1936 in Nairobi, Kenya. Son of Bastiram and Vidya (Vati) Ghai.
Queen's College, Oxford University, 5558, Bachelor of Arts Philosophy, Political & Economy, 1958-1959, B Philosophy Economy. Yale University, 1959-1961. Master of Arts Economy, Doctor of Philosophy Economy.
Spoken languages: Hindi, English, Kiswahili.
Lecturer in economics Maketere University College, Kampala, Uganda, 1961-1965. Visiting research fellow Economic Growth Center, Yale University, New Haven, 1965-1966. Senior research fellow Institute Development Studies, University Nairobi, 1966-1967, director economic research, 1967-1974.
Chief world employment program International Labor Organization, Geneva, 1973-1974, chief technical secretariat, 1975-1976, chief research employment political branch, 1977-1987. Director United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 1987-1997. Advisor International Institute Labour Studies, International Labor Organization, since 1999.
Board directors Graduate Institute Development Studies, Geneva, French Institute of Science Research for Development Studies, Paris. Trustee Minority Rights Group, London. Senior economist Pearson Commission, Washington, 1968-1969.
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Author: A Case Study of Uganda, 1966, (with Arkansas Khan) Collective Agriculture and Rural Development in Soviet Central Asia, 1979, (with M. Godfrey and F. Lisk) Planning for Basic Needs in Kenya, 1979, (with Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Smith) Agricultural Prices, Policy and Equity in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1983, (with C. Kay and P. Peek) Labour and Development in Rural Cuba, 1987, (with J.A. Zammit, N. Tiruchelvam and B. Turner) Hungary in Transition: From Socialism to Capitalism?, 1990, (with J.A. Zammit) Which Way to the Market?, 1992. Editor: Portrait of a Minority: Asians in East Africa, 1965, (with Y.P. Ghai) second edition, 1970, Swedish translation, 1971, Economic Independence in Africa, 1973, The International Monetary Fund and the South: The Social Impact of Crisis and Adjustment, 1991. Co-editor: Education, Society and Development-Some Perspectives from Kenya, 1974, The Basic Needs Approach to Development: Some Issues Regarding Concepts and Methodology, 1977, Agrarian Systems and Rural Development, 1979, Essays on Employment in Kenya, 1979, Overcoming Rural Underdevelopment, 1979, Agrarian Policies and Rural Poverty in Africa, 1983, Grassroots Environmental Action: People's Participation in Sustainable Development, 1992, Monitoring Social Progress in the 1990's: Data Constraints, Concerns and Priorities, 1993, Social Development and Public Policy, 1999, Renewing Social and Economic Progress, 2000.
Guest editor: Development and Environment: Sustaining People and Nature, 1994.
Member: Fellow, African Academy of Sciences, Nairobi.
Married Neela Korde, March 29, 1963. Children: Kamini, Aniket, Mohini.