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² The Economics of Take-Off into Self-Sustained Growth. Proceedings of a Conference held by the International Economic Association (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1965)Google Scholar.

³ Gordon, Robert J., “45 Billion of U. S. Private Investment Has Been Mislaid,” American Economic Review, LIX (June, 1949), 221–38Google Scholar.

⁴ See United Nations, Economic Commission for Latin America, The Process of Industrial Development in Latin America (New York: 1966), pp. 35–45.Google Scholar