Evolving development paradigm

In view of the political, economic and social turmoil in which ECAFE was born, it would be natural to expect that the first consideration of all the developing countries in the region would be to bring back a semblance of stability but on the basis of a very different platform on which that stability was to be based. The Asian member countries of ECAFE were determined to head towards the goal of a long-term improvement in the standard of living of their people, although the strength of that determination differed from country to country. ECAFE acted partly in a promotional role by articulating the concrete correlatives of that vision of progress and tried actively to sketch out the possibilities and the difficulties in realizing that goal.

Related Subject(s): Economic and Social Development