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For developed and developing countries alike, the experience of the past few years as regards the interaction between growth, incomes and employment, provides a number of valuable lessons that should be useful for the reconsideration of the advantages and disadvantages of incomes policies. However, it is with respect to the developing countries that such a reconsideration is even more urgent and, within that group, the Sub-Saharan countries which are now in the throes of a serious economic crisis.
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Onitiri, H.M.A., Owosekun, A. (1989). Incomes Policies and the Developing Countries: the African Experience with Special Reference to Nigeria. In: Urquidi, V.L. (eds) Incomes Policies. International Economic Association Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20381-9_13
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