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Part one: Trade and Development: Trends, Needs and Policies
Part one of World Economic Survey 1963 presents the second series of papers prepared for discussion at the second session (May?June 1963) of the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, to be convened in 1964. These papers addressed the broad issue of trade as an instrument for economic development of the developing countries.
Part two: Current Economic Developments
Part two of World Economic Survey 1963 highlights the fairly vigorous pace of world economic growth in 1963 and early 1964, which has been more widespread among countries and more uniform among the major regions than in previous years. The primary producing countries as a whole benefited from the strengthening of world commodity markets and from better terms of trade. Part two contains an annex that summarizes the changes in the world primary commodity situation during the period 1962/63-1963/64.
Economic Developments in the Middle East 1961-63
As a continuation of the series of studies on the Middle East, this Supplement to World Economic Survey 1963 reviews economic developments in the Middle East from 1961 to 1963. During this period, the countries covered by this report experienced generally favourable developments, which, however, varied considerably from one country to another, and, within each country, from one economic sector to another. An improvement in weather conditions in the period covered was largely responsible for the substantial increases in the economic activities of the region as a whole.