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India Quarterly (A Journal of International Affairs) July - September 1952

1952

The papers in which the subject is approached from the point of view of several Asian countries treat of both aspects of the problem.222 B. K. MADAN Scope of the Article It is the purpose of this article to examine the comparative merits and practicable scope of the various forms of international invesment—private and governmental—in the form of direct or equity investment shares loans or gra [...] In fact the idea of having a permanent organ of the United Nations to concentrate on coordinating the activities of the specialized agencies in the field of economic development had been put forward at the Havana Conference on the International Trade Organization but no action had been taken on the suggestion.' I further elaborated my ideas on the Vide the following resolution passed by the Uni [...] The United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment Having considered the problems of the industrial and general economic development and reconstruction of the Members of the International Trade Organization; and Having noted the related activities of other inter-governmental organizations and specialized agencies; and Having determined that positive measures for the promotion of the economic de [...] Projects for economic development calling for the aid of UNEDA will have to stand the economic test in the sense that their compltion will result in raising the productivity of the underdeveloped areas and the standard of living of their peoples rargelyby prviding the basic conditions for ensuring the efficient and successful operation of the more orthodox projects of economic development [...] The experts seemed to believe that what held up an adequate financing of economic devlopment was inadequacy in the size of the funds at the disposal of the Bank and overstrictness in the conditions determining the eligibility of projects for their loans whereas it was my belief that in addition to these reasons the rate of interest charged was a highly deterrent factor to the borrowing necess
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Frontmatter
i-ii B.N. Ganguli, Zakir Hussain, M. Mujeeb view
Forms of Foreign Investment
221-236 B.K. Madan view
An International Development Authortty
236-269 V.K.R.V Rao view
Economic Development of Pakistan
269-284 M.L. Qureshi view
Economic Development in Burma
284-288 Thet Tun view
Economic Development of Malaya
289-311 S. Nanjundan view
Thailand a Developing Economy
311-334 Joseph Gould view
Philippine Economic Problems Progress and Programmes
335-352 Salvador Araneto view
Backmatter
i-v B.N. Ganguli, Zakir Hussain, M. Mujeeb view

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