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When, in December 1961, the United Nations General Assembly designated the period 1960–1970 as the ‘development decade’, the full membership of the United Nations solemnly resolved to make a sustained joint effort towards speeding up the economic and social development of the ‘third world’, and towards bridging the widening gap between rich and poor nations, by indicating a common goal to be attained and new directions of action to be pursued. The General Assembly resolution on the Development Decade stated as its objective a minimum rate of growth of the aggregate national income of developing countries of 5 per cent at the end of the decade.
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van der Goot, A. (1968). Opening Statement. In: Urbanization in Developing Countries. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-5882-6_8
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