National Development Plan for the Period 1964-1970

Abstract

The key strategy of this Plan is to direct an increasing share of the total resources available to the nation towards the rural areas. The Government believes that it is only through an accelerated development of the rural areas that balanced economic development can be achieved, that the necessary growth of employment opportunities can be generated and that the people as a whole can participate in the development process. The Government plans to give new meaning to the phrase “rural development”; so that the principles of African Socialism involving the equitable distribution of the benefits of prosperity can be given greater reality in a nation enjoying a higher level of general prosperity.