[Social planners have been preoccupied with methods of estimating the demand for social services and have accorded scant attention to the problem of assessing the supply of those services. As a corollary, they are far better equipped to grapple with the question of the magnitude of need than with that of the capacity to satisfy need. The object of the present article is to rectify in part this deficiency by furnishing insights into the supply side of social planning].
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