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THE broadsheet "World Economic Survey", issued as No. 283 by Political and Economic Planning, gives a very useful and concise summary of two large and valuable reports produced by the Department of Economic Affairs of the United Nations Organisation. This Department is carrying on the essential functions of the Economic, Financial and Transit Department of the League of Nations, which issued almost as its swan song the "World Economic Survey, 1942–44". The comprehensive picture which that report gave of the world economic situation on the eve of victory was supplemented by two other reports, "Commercial Policy in the Post-war World"and "The Cause and Control of Inflation", the former reviewing the problem of post-war trade policies and trade relationships and the latter monetary experience in Europe after the First World War, which especially for their review of the inter-war years are almost equally valuable in providing the background for the discussions of the Economic and Social Council and the Economic Commission for Europe, which it is the prime purpose of the two new reports to provide. These reports, "Economic Report : Salient Features of the World Economic Situation 1945-1947", with a subsequent supplement, and "A Survey of the Economic Situation and Prospects of Europe", are also intended to find their way into the universities and libraries, and the summary provided by P.E.P. will indicate to the industrialist the extent of the assistance they can give them as well as the economist and research worker.
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World Economic Survey. Nature 162, 467 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162467a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162467a0