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population policy (much can be done even with para- medical personnel and rural clinics);

housing development could be geared to self-help and to schemes which merely supply 'site-and- services';

police-training could continue to be assisted until there is a local capacity to maintain law and

order;

so far as possible territories should seek to avoid importing inflationary wage and salary levels;

schemes involving capital expenditure should be approved only in the light of the recurrent financial commitments which they will involve.

17. The second option is to set ourselves higher standards, on the basis that it is desirable on humanitarian as well as political grounds to seek to provide greater benefits for the local inhabitants of our dependent territories, so as to pre-empt criticism that Britain is committing them to independence under

discreditable social and economic conditions.

Conditions in different dependencies very but such an objective might imply for example:

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b.

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a.

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improved standards of housing, piped water,

electricity and sewerage systems, at least in

urban areas;

universal primary education with further education as appropriate to local needs;

readily available medical services, including village clinics with easy and speedy access to hospital and specialist care;

adequate and well-maintained communications systems

by road, air and sea.

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To gear aid policy to consumption rather than to investment in this way is difficult to reconcile with any attempt to relate development to local resources, or to the pursuit of political independence, since this strategy would inevitably tend to prolong economic dependence. On the assumption that the recipient

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