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PAR FOLLOW-UP : TERRITORIAL STUDIES

OUTLINE OF ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT

Economic and Social Structure

Population; land area, use and ownership; resource endowment;

principal economic characteristics; social characteristics;

role of expatriates in government and private sectors.

Recent Economic Performance

Trends in national income and aggregates;

external transactions;

public finance (capital and recurrent); role of private capital; sector development (particularly social services and infrastructure);

population, wage employment, localisation and incomes;

of growth benefits; public sector management capacity.

Development Objectives

distribution

Summary of current development strategy and sector targets;

critical assessment (with particular reference to probable constrainta

and to distribution of benefits).

Role of the British Aid Programme

Critical assessment of British aid programme objectives and management over the last five years (with particular reference to the problem of "aid dependence"); overall requirement for aid (all sources)

in period under review; role of other donors;

recommendationa

on type, form, terms and volume of British aid; proposed sector

distribution of project and manpower aid;

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programme management.

STATISTICAL APPENDIX

Population

Number:

local/expatriate;

implications' for aid

growth rate; crude birth and denth

rates; infant mortality; average life expectancy; density.

Land

Area: comment on topography, soils and vegetation;

of cultivable and cultivated land; alienated land.

proportions