ABSTRACT
Modern efforts to promote, by means of international cooperation and organisation, ‘higher standards of living, full employment and conditions of economic and social progress’ have, as yet, only a short history. First vaguely formulated in 1941, in the Atlantic Charter, and then set forth in greater detail in 1945, in the Charter of the United Nations, these objectives have become an established part of major national and international economic policies, aiming in particular at the improvement of conditions in those countries which are economically less advanced.
