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1.

The recommendations of the 1971 Inter-Departmental Working Party on the

Review of the Aid Programme ("the Adams Report"), which were approved by

Ministers included the following:-

we should use the freedom of manoeuvre provided by an expanding

aid programme to place more emphasis on those countries and those

forms of aid which provide good prospects for our exports and

investments and political interests;

b. there should be an examination in depth of the relationship

between aid operations and commercial benefits in the form of export

earnings and returns on private investment;

C.

an assessment of the use of the credit mixte technique being

undertaken by the Department of Trade and Industry in consultation

with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office should be referred to

Ministers for consideration;

d.

we should continue to examine critically all on-going aid

programmes to ensure that the interests they are intended to promote

have a reasonable relationship to the sums we are investing.

Since

This study has been the immediate follow-up to these recommendations.

the purposes of the study were already laid down by Ministers, the study does

not offer a series of options but instead has led to detailed recommendations

for giving effect to the main findings of the Adams Report.

2.

While the study has been mainly concerned with the Adams recommendations a.

and b., it has also taken account of the credit mixte assessment referred to

The on-going

at c. and the report includes recommendations about this.

critical examination of aid programmes referred to in d. is a continuing

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