World Economic and Social Survey 1974

Part one: Mid-term Review and Appraisal of Progress in the implementation of the International Development Strategy

Part one of World Economic Survey 1974 was designed to assist in the second assessment of the way in which Governments are responding to the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade. It presents an overall analysis of economic and social performance in the developing countries and of the implementation of the Strategy by the developed market and the centrally planned economies.

Part two: Current Economic Developments

Part two of World Economic Survey 1974 analyses the salient features of world production and trade in 1974 compared with the earlier years of the Second United Nations Development Decade. It also deals in detail with the course of production and world trade, with problems of internal economic balance, including the acceleration of inflation in 1974 and the emergence of recessionary forces in the developed market economies. Finally, it examines the prospects for the world economy in 1975.

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