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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Goran Ohlin
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The problems of development assistance have loomed large on the OECD agenda ever since its establishment, first as the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) and then as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Briefly recapitulated, OEEC was created in 1948 to provide for the joint European execution of the Marshall Plan and for the close economic cooperation that the United States' aid offer had launched. Whatever the actual contribution of OEEC, the postwar European economic recovery was remarkably quick. Few international organizations have been thus blessed with the satisfaction of seeing their objectives so amply fulfilled.

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International Organization , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , Winter 1968 , pp. 231 - 243
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1968

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1 The original members were Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Portugal, the United Kingdom, the United States, and West Germany; Japan was included at the very first session.

2 Rubin, Seymour J., The Conscience of the Rich Nations: The Development Assistance Committee and the Common Aid Effort (New York: Harper & Row [for the Council on Foreign Relations], 1966), p. 80Google Scholar.

3 “The OECD Development Centre,” The OECD Observer, 10 1963 (No. 6), p. 12Google Scholar.

4 This project covered Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, and Yugoslavia.

5 Rubin, p. 5.

6 Text of resolution on common aid effort in“Development Assistance Group Concludes Fourth Meeting,” Department of State Bulletin, 04 17, 1961 (Vol. 44, No. 1138), p. 554Google Scholar.

7 Development Assistance Efforts and Policies of the Members of the Development Assistance Committee: 1965 Review (Report by Thorp, Willard L., Chairman of the Development Assistance Committee) (Paris: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 09 1965), p. 12Google Scholar.