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164. Summary Minutes of Meeting of the Interdepartmental Committee of Under Secretaries on Foreign Economic Policy

hington, 1963). There are about 30 countries in which there are good prospects for achieving self-sustaining growth. A half dozen of those have reached the point of not needing economic assistance of soft terms. Others—India, Pakistan, Colombia, and Nigeria—have not yet achieved that status but are moving in that direction and are making substantial progress. There are another 12 or 15 countries (Chile and Brazil are examples) which have the potential for moving forward but there is a question whether governmental leadership is strong enough and clearly enough committed to economic programs to…