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The Application of Science and Technology to Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Sherman E. Katz
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The United Nations Advisory Committee on the Application of Science and Technology to Development has said:

The considered view of the Committee is that, in present circumstances, the wider and more intensive application of existing knowledge, suitably adapted to local conditions, provides the best prospect of securing rapid advancement in the developing countries.

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International Organization , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , Winter 1968 , pp. 392 - 416
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1968

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3 Science and Technology for Development: Report on the United Nations Conference on the Application of Science and Technology for the Benefit of the Less Developed Areas (hereinafter cited as Report on UNCSAT), Vol. VIII: Plenary Proceedings, List of Papers and Index (United Nations Publication Sales No: 63.I.28 [UN Document E/CONF.39/I, Vol. VIII]) (New York, 1963)Google Scholar.

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5 Conveyed to the author by a source wishing to remain unidentified.

6 Idem.

7 UN Document E/3772, p. 78.

8 The Committee membership was increased from fifteen to eighteen by ECOSOC Resolution 997 (XXXVI), December 18, 1963.

9 General Assembly Resolution 1944 (XVIII), December 11, 1963.

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20 Ibid., p. 84.

21 ECOSOC Resolution 1155 (XLI), August 5, 1966.

22 Ibid.

23 Ibid.

24 See the draft working paper prepared by the secretariat of die Advisory Committee on die Application of Science and Technology to Development, December 19, 1966, paragraph 6.

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35 Ibid., p. 256.

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47 In this program top management level business executive volunteers are assigned to companies of all sizes in developing countries. They serve as consultants in the solution of the entire gambit of business problems for periods of three to four months. In two and a half years 273 projects have been completed in 35 countries and 300 more projects have been undertaken.