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Enquiry on National Public Works (Ser. L.0.N.P.1934.VIII.8) . . . 12/-
In September 1933 the Council of the League of Nations came to the conclusion
that a continuous international study of general questions relating to public works,
including big programmes of work financed out of national resources, would be of
great value as it would permit a comparison of the experience acquired in the different
countries in regard to the effects of the execution of public works on the resumption
of economic activity and on unemployment. The Council was therefore of opinion
that the collection of the necessary preparatory information should be at once
proceeded with.
The report adopted by the Assembly in 1933 expressed similar views. It suggested
that such information would be particularly useful in order to enable Governments
to judge of the possibility and desirability of pursuing, in present circumstances, a
policy of carrying out programmes of public works on parallel lines. In the period of
distress through which the world is now passing, this question cannot fail to be of
particular interest to both public opinion and Governments in most countries.
In compliance with the wishes of the Council and Assembly, the Secretary-
General has asked the Governments to send him the information required.
With the exception of some minor details, these replies are reproduced in full.
It is hoped that the particulars supplied will enable Governments to decide whether
it will be possible for them to co-ordinate the policies which they are severally
pursuing in this matter.
Published previously
Circular concerning Programmes of Important Public Works
(Ser. L.o.N. P.1931.VIIL16). 4 pp
Committee of Enquiry on Questions relating to Public Works and
National Technical Equipment. Report on the First Two Sessions <
of the Committee (Ser. L.o.N. P. 1932. VUI.2). 5 pp. . .
— —-. Report on the Third Session of the Committee (C.646.M.323.i932>
VIII). (Ser. L.o.N. P.1932.VIII.5). 5 pp
This report, which is supplementary to that on the first and second sessions of
the Committee, embodies the results arrived at by the Committee at its third session,
when it examined the schemes of public works on which it had been unable to reach
a decision at its second session, and those submitted to it since then.
This report, like the previous report, has been submitted to the Council of the
League of Nations.
,, Report on the Fourth. Session of the Committee (Ser. L.o.N. P. 1933.
VIII.i). 3 pp
International Questions relating to Public Works. Report
submitted to the Monetary and Economic Conference by the League of
Nations Committee of Enquiry on Questions relating to Public Works
and National Technical Equipment of the Organisation for Communi¬
cations and Transit (Ser. L.o.N. P. i933.II.Spec.3). 8 pp
National Public Works (Ser. L.o.N. P. 1934.VIII.7). 8 pp
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