ABSTRACT
The central problem of development planning is dominated by the lack of competent staff, both in the countries which most need them and in the international agencies; and by the consequential failure to use available resources to their full advantage. So far as the first problem, that of training is concerned, the situation is less than satisfactory. The second of the problems mentioned that of organizing development planning. The proposals regarding development projects are supposed to be put forward by the recipient member countries themselves; it is on the basis of these and of the requests for aid that accompany them that a mission is sent out to the country concerned. And either technical assistance or resource aid provided, whether by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank, or one of the bilateral agencies. The Report rightly points to the absolute need for planning, that is, the allocation of aid to various agencies, to be reorganized and centralized.
