The national resources inventory

Abstract

The United Nations has designated the 1960’s as the Decade of Development. In this decade, the developing nations, with the assistance of the United Nations, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the US Agency for International Development and various other public, private, national and international institutions, have undertaken the most comprehensive series of programmes for economic improvement ever attempted. These programmes require a high degree of national planning by the governments involved. The: new reliance on formal planning procedures by central government agencies, accelerates the pace of development and minimizes the problems of attaining national objectives. On the part of assisting agencies, national planning is essential to the efficient use of manpower and finances, focuses attention on the critical developmental needs, and reduces duplication of effort.