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Wanted: A World Development Plan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Jan Tinbergen
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Development planning has become a routine activity for large numbers of corporations as well as for public authorities at various levels, particularly national governments. The time has come to make an attempt to create a framework for all these activities at the highest, that is, the world, level. Several of the most important arguments in favor of the construction of such a world “indicative” development plan1 will thus be discussed in this introductory section.

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International Organization , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , Winter 1968 , pp. 417 - 431
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1968

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1 By an indicative plan we mean one that is not imposed on any institution but only serves as a guideline for the activities of the institutions concerned (governments, enterprises, families, and so on).

2 See The United Nations Development Decade at Mid-Point: An Appraisal by the Secretary-General (United Nations Publication Sales No: 65.I.26 [UN Document E/4071/Rev.1]) (New York, 1965)Google Scholar and subsequent reports.

3 For a brief survey of these activities see Tinbergen, Jan, “International Economic Planning,” Daedalus, Spring 1966 (Vol. 95, No. 2), pp. 537–544Google Scholar.

4 “Economic Planning and Projections, Report of the Committee for Development Planning on its first session” (UN Document E/4207 and Add.1–2, May 12, 1966).

5 Tinbergen, , Daedalus, Vol. 95, No. 2, pp. 544–557Google Scholar.

6 Tinbergen, J., Central Planning (Studies in Comparative Economics No. 4) (New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1964), pp. 8, 14, and 22Google Scholar.

7 See Supplementary Financial Measures: A Study Requested by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Washington: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 12 1965)Google Scholar.

8 Max F. Millikan regards the criterion chosen here as an undesirable way to argue that a much higher rate of growth than the prevailing one is needed for the developing countries. His main argument to arrive at the same conclusion is that only with the rates of growth mentioned is there a real prospect that a shortening of the period of dependence on large-scale aid can be attained. However one looks at the matter the common conclusion is that the growth rates just quoted are what we need.

9 Rosenstein-Rodan, P. N., “International Aid for Underdeveloped Countries,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 05 1961 (Vol. 43, No. 2), pp. 107–138CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

10 Development Assistance Efforts and Policies of the Members of the Development Assistance Committee: 1966 Review (Report by Thorp, Willard L., Chairman of the Development Assistance Committee) (Paris: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 09 1966), p. 27Google Scholar.

11 This expression is Ian M. D. Little's.

12 Tinbergen, , Daedalus, Vol. 95, No. 2., p. 551Google Scholar.

13 See Boon, Gerard Karel, Economic Choice of Human and Physical Factors in Production: An attempt to measure the micro-economic and macro-economic possibilities of variation in factor-proportions of productions (Contributions to Economic Analysis, 35) (Amsterdam: North Holland, 1964)Google Scholar.

14 See a forthcoming publication by the Netherlands Economic Institute, The Element of Space in Development Planning.

15 Tinbergen, , Daedalus, Vol. 95, No. 2Google Scholar.