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June 6, 1955
Mr. Hal B. Lary, Director,
Besearoh and Planning Division
ECONOMIC COMflSSIC»} FOB EUBOPE
Palais des Nations
Oeneve
Dear Lary,
Thank you for yours of 2? May, BCE/HBL/mn. I fully understand
yo\ir standpoint. What I had in mind is that the assistance to be given to
the planners of the coimtries concerned requires at least two different types
of knowledge: the more technical knowledge necessary to Judge separate projects
in the field of agriculture, transportation, manufacturing industries, and
the more general economic and statistical background needed to Judge the
general cohesion of the plan, to test the assumptions on demand, taxes, national accounting methods, etc. The first type of work can best be done by
technical specialists in each of the fields concerned whereas the second type
is more particularly njy own. This is why in the Mexican mission of the Dutch
organization NEDBCO in which I participated and in e.g. Bank missions so far
both typos of people were represented. After an introductory discussion, by
the whole group, of the programme as a whole, detailed scrutiny of its parts
has to take place, to be executed by the technical experts. After that second
stage, a third will be useful in which again the general expert has to be
the co-ordinating element. This is why I thought I should be available a
week or so in the beginning, then could be absent a few weeks and again
should be with the group for one or two weeks. It is difficult to mention
names since I coiad not consult TSEBECO but my colleagues in the NEDECO
mission were agrictatural, transportation and manufacturing experts, most
of them engineers with an economic background. We had Mr. Posthuma, of
the Rotterdam Port Authority, Mr. Joosten, former railway engineer in
Indonesia, etc.
I hope these few indications will be of some help to you.
With best personcü. regards^
Tours very sincerely,

J. Tinbergen

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