Balanced Development

While economists and others might disagree over the most appropriate policies for stimulating development, there is at least some convergence of-views on objectives. The appropriate means may be in doubt, but the end that is commonly understood is to raise living standards on a sustainable basis

Obituary: Jack Duloy, 1932–2005

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The ABC130 barrel module prototyping programme for the ATLAS strip tracker

For the Phase-II Upgrade of the ATLAS Detector, its Inner Detector, consisting of silicon pixel, silicon strip and transition radiation sub-detectors, will be replaced with an all new 100 % silicon tracker, composed of a pixel tracker at inner radii and a strip tracker at outer radii. The future ATLAS strip tracker will include 11,000 silicon sensor modules in the central region (barrel) and 7,000 modules in the forward region (end-caps), which are foreseen to be constructed over a period of 3.5 years. The construction of each module consists of a series of assembly and quality control steps, which were engineered to be identical for all production sites. In order to develop the tooling and procedures for assembly and testing of these modules, two series of major prototyping programs were conducted: an early program using readout chips designed using a 250 nm fabrication process (ABCN-25) and a subsequent program using a follow-up chip set made using 130 nm processing (ABC130 and HCC130 chips). This second generation of readout chips was used for an extensive prototyping program that produced around 100 barrel-type modules and contributed significantly to the development of the final module layout. This paper gives an overview of the components used in ABC130 barrel modules, their assembly procedure and findings resulting from their tests.Comment: 82 pages, 66 figure

Towards Balanced Development in Pakistan (Distinguishedl Lecture)

The United Nations Development Programme has recently launched an annual series of Human Development Reports (HDRs) see UNDP (1990-annual). This event marks a major initiative to broaden the debate over development strategies and, in particular, to secure a greater emphasis within that debate on people and their circumstances. From the outset the Human Development Reports have documented the fact that the correlations between economic growth and improvements in health, education and other social indicators are not necessarily close, although there are obvious causal links which can be traced in both directions. In particular, there are countries for which the economic growth performance has been more impressive than the gains which are suggested by various social indicators. Pakistan is a case in point and this paper reports on an effort to first understand why this might be, and then to develop a framework within which to structure the issues arising as an initial step towards the redesign of policies