PLAN FOR PROGRESS
Development Of South-east
Asia NZPA—Copyright LONDON, Sept. 25. Opening the meetings of the Commonwealth Consultative Committee, which is to discuss the six-year. £ 1,725.000,000 plan for the development of South-east Asian countries, the British Minister of Economic Affairs, Mr Hugh Gaitskell, emphasised that the main cause -of poverty in Southeast Asia was the lack of productivity He declared that the essential conditions of economic progress in South and South-east Asia were: Ample supplies of electric power for industry and mining: large-scale irrigation schemes for raising agricultural yields; improved transport facilities for developing inland territories; modern factories and equipment, and modern methods of farming.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27505, 27 September 1950, Page 7
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105PLAN FOR PROGRESS Otago Daily Times, Issue 27505, 27 September 1950, Page 7
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