Social Dimensions of Macroeconomic Policy

Download or read book Social Dimensions of Macroeconomic Policy written by United Nations. Executive Committee on Economic and Social Affairs and published by Santiago, Chile : UN/ECLAC. This book was released on 2001 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contrast between social policy needs and the economic requirements of sound macroeconomic policies are set out in this report. The social agenda concerns itself with the relief of poverty and redistribution of wealth, while macroeconomic policies, are by their nature more short term in scope, and deal with the economic vagaries that effect the economies of countries in the short and medium term. But despite their seemingly divergent aims, they are linked, with both having effects upon the other. This report was produced by the Executive Committee on Economic and Social Affairs, and examines the constraints and conditions that operate in promoting the aims of both social and macroeconomic policies.