Human Systems Management

Martin De Waele

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De Waele, Martin

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C. West Churchman

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The paper discusses the need to combine development planning and one of its antithetical opposites: poverty.

Churchman, C. West

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The paper discusses the need to combine development planning and one of its antithetical opposites: poverty.

Simon Bell

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This paper endeavours to explain a project planning exercise set in China and involving the development of a Management Information System (MIS). The approach used is implicitly systemic and makes use of some fairly well-known systems tools. The main objective of the paper is to explain some of the problems and issues involved in the use of Logframe project planning (such as holism and participation) and to raise a series of learning issues. Elements covered in the paper include: a brief introduction to Logframe, a systems view of the project background, introduction to the TeamUp approach to project planning, critique of the planning tool and an overview of learning outcomes.

Keith Griffin

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Vietnam has been remarkably successful in managing structural adjustment and macroeconomic reform. As a result, it has achieved very rapid economic growth during the present decade without, apparently, a substantial increase in inequality. All sectors of the economy have grown rapidly and yet there has been dramatic structural change. This growth and structural change, according to official data, have occurred despite a relatively low rate of investment. Our analysis suggests, however, that savings and investment have been understated, that actual output is higher than the national accounts data indicate and that growth is even faster than the official figures suggest. These results are a consequence of the nature and sequencing of the policy reforms that were introduced from the 1980s onwards.