TY - BOOK AU - Bognár,József ED - Akadémiai Kiadó. TI - Economic policy and planning in developing countries AV - HD82 B55813 1968 U1 - 338.9'009172'4 PY - 1968/// CY - Budapest PB - Akadémiai Kiadó KW - Economic policy KW - Developing countries N1 - Includes bibliographical references and Index N2 - First published in 1978, this book was written at a time when belief was high in Western-guided economic development of the emerging countries. The success of Marshall Plan in war-torn Europe generated a US-led optimism that, with generous inflows of aid and technical assistance, the Third World could be won over in the Cold War. The author's direct experience as a young academic economist in Cyprus, Malaysia, Uganda and Liberia led him to question this general optimism: the reality on the ground in the developing world did not seem to match Western optimism. ER -