| Popis: |
It is clear that population movement is amenable to intervention, and a more systematic knowledge, inventory and analysis of national experiences would be helpful to achievement of this end. If population distribution policies are to have meaning, they must be framed in the context of a country's socioeconomic development goals and policies. 1 problem is that the instruments used to achieve national or regional socioeconomic development often have unintended and adverse results from the standpoint of population distribution goals. In developing an appropriate methodology for evaluating the effectiveness of population distribution policies, the problems are compounded by the existence of explicit and implicit policies, the existence simultaneously of interacting policy instruments, the issue of appropriate time periods and geographic scales, and the criteria by which to measure effectiveness. Much too much emphasis may have been placed on costly indirect measures of government intervention (infrastructure improvements) and not enough on direct measures (e.g., public investment in job creation and systems of licenses and permits on location of enterprises) in the economic areas. Frequently a conflict exists in the goals and policies implemented at various hierarchical levels of government. |
