Planning for Economic Development

A/RES/1708(XVI)No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1962.

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2 versions · 1962–1964

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1962A/RES/1708(XVI)Planning for economic development

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4 topics

Development Planning Economic Development Economic Planning Economic Projections

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4 operative paragraphs

General Assembly

Invites also the Economic and Social Council at its resumed thirty-second session to recommend that the Economic Commission for Africa, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East consider this matter at their forthcoming annual meetings and that the Econo~ic _Comm!ssion _fo_r Europe consider the expansion of 1t~ m-serv1ce trammg programme to include a substantial number of fellows from less developed regions; . 3.

Expresses the hope that the Special Fund will give prnmpt and sympathetic consideration to the establishment of the institutes referred to above;

_4. _Expresses the hope also that the Special Fund will give prompt and sympathetic consideration to the establishment of similar institutes which may be proposed by a group of Member States that are not members of any regional economic commission, such institut~s to be open to participation by developing countries which are at present members of regional economic commissions ;

II Requests the Secretary-General to establish an Economic Projections and Programming Centre with sub-

• E/CN.11/571, para. 53.

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Second Committee, 717th meeting.

' Sixteenth Session

centres, as appropriate, in the regional economic commissions or institutes of economic development and planning:

_(a) To intensify the activities already initiated in this field and to prepare, as soon as practicable, in cooperation with the international agencies concerned long-term projections of world economic trends in orde; to facilitate the formulation of national economic plans;

( b) To provide studies of planning techniques under various economic and social systems which would be helpful to national and regional institutes of economic development and planning;

III

I nvitcs the Secretary-General, with the assistance of a group of experts composed with due regard to their f~miliarity with various planning techniques under different economic systems and in co-operation with the appropriate institutions of different countries, to prepare a study summarizing the experience gained and the techniques in use in the planning of economic development by different countries, and at the same time expresses the hope that the Governments of Member States will help to carry out that study;

Requests the Economic and Social Council to examine the study at its thirty-sixth session and to ~ubmit to the General Assembly at its eighteenth session its recommendations concerning the utilization of experience of economic planning in the interests of developing countries;

?urther invites the Secretary-General to prepare a special chapter on questions of economic development planning in one of the forthcoming issues of the World Economic Survey.

19 December 1961.

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