United Nations training programme in industrial development and planning: final report

Abstract

The purpose of the programme briefly is economic background to technicans, and technical background to economists. It was not meant to be an academic programme in which a certain amount of basic disciplines and techniques are taught. These, however, were smuggled in as a part of discussion of a series of practical tasks in which the official themselves were engaged in their countries. The purpose of the programme was to give them an idea of the process of industrial development from the planning stage to the implementation stage. In this effort, emphasis was placed on project level planning, study of technical and economic aspects of selected industries, policy measures to promote industrial development, and regional planning. This Training Programme could be considered as an industry experiment. First, this was the first comprehensive training course in industrial development. Secondly, it was not possible to interview and select participants.