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FIGURH 8. Selected Unofficial Questions for UNCS I D. 



I. H(m miKh cmpliasis should k- placed nil iiidiiMn.ili/alion and '■( (.nmiiii i^rnuih. 

 and liDu nuuh on inci'tmu "hasic human nreds:" 



2 What docs it mean to sa\ that a ■■new scientific and let hiioloi'ic al okIit" must he part 

 ot the New International Hconomic Order.-' 



3. Have science and technoK.uv been ■'perxertecr e\crvwhere. so ih.il the enure global 

 structure must be totally reoriented.^ It so. what would be tlie implKaHons 'as has been 

 su.tiijestedi ot stopi^n^ all present ch.mnels ihrouuh ulmh DCs iransier k. hnolouv to 

 the Third World:-' 



■1 Should bilateral, reuional. topical, or mullilaleral ari.inuemenis br omphasi/ed in (haiis^inu 

 and or expanding; the lines ol looper.ition on sdeiiiiln and lechiiol. ^uu ,il a. ii\iius^ 



3. Are there reasi-nahle compiomises vMthiii the debates about new ai^reemenis mncernmi; 

 international actnities ot prnate corimraiions.-' 



6. What are the wavs in which DCs can jusiilv consideriiiu am iiu rcises m toremn .ud 

 and technical assistance to I. DCs? 



T(i consider and rank priorities in some semi cjiiantitative wav. there is a pressint^ 

 need to create new svstems lor measllrln^ the scale and inteiisitx of " 'de\elopment 

 problems '" With better measurements, n would be teasible to shaix- liittire priorities 

 more corifidentlv m relation to past r.ites ol success (or tailiiic) I'or examiMe. most 

 observers use aii economic index ot either the prospentv ot a coimirv or the late of 

 growth. Althom^li such ,111 index is helptiil and economic ^rowlh is essenti.il. this 

 index alone does not reveal siitficientlv clearly the short run ( han^es m the li\'es ol 

 most ot the population. (In manv ccumtries it has been shown that, over lonu time 

 periods, the upper 20% of the population receives '^O',!; oi ihe national uk ome. 

 while the lowest 20'^. receives ■) '/!..) Since measures ot per capita income do not 

 disclose the whole picture ol developmental patterns, new concepts such as the 

 Phvsical Quality ol Lite Index bemy explored by the Overseas De\elo|Mnent 

 Council- iniist he refined^' 



It we had a better measure of developmental progress, then we would ha\c' a belter 

 handle on assessing the more general nitcrcutians hctun'n R&D poiicus and 

 econnmic paluies. F^&D policies include the full sweep of plans and budgets, both 

 short ran^e and lonij ranije, that relate the missions of cmcIi coimtiv's |niblic <md 

 private st>ctors with its scientific and tec IiiioIolik al c a|Mbiliiies -' I'coiiomic p(>licies 

 refer to the full sweep of national decisions affecting priorities, rates, levels, and direc 

 tions of investments for socioeconomic evolution. For both these domains ot policy, 

 national trends also must be meshed increasmuK caretullv with international trends. 

 Instead ol having confidence in these assessments, all countries lace the ^larintj 

 superficiality ot present analytical understanding about the relationships between 

 investnients m R&:D and the pace of economic de\elo|iment. 



