Special study on economic conditions in non - Self - Government Territories; Analysis of information transmitted to the Secretary - General (1956 - 1957)

The Committee on Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories which met in New York from 22 July to 15 August 1957 approved a special report¹ for submission to the twelfth session of the General Ass ably.

The points raised in the report are summarized in Chapter I of this volume. The remain ing chapters contain the studies on economic conditions in the Non-Self-Governing Territories prepared for the Committee on the basis of information transmitted to the Secretary-General from 1956 through the first months of 1957.²

This volume is part of an annual series containing summaries of information on Non Self-Governing Territories and also of the special studies on economic, social and educational conditions in Non-Self-Governing Territories. The volumes published previously are listed on page ii. It should be noted that since 1957 the summaries of information of a supplementary character appearing two years out of three no longer appear in a single volume. They are instead prepared in nine separate fascicles covering respectively Central, East, Southern and West African Territories, Asian Territories, the Caribbean and Western Atlantic Terri tories, the Indian Ocean Territories, the Pacific Ocean Territories and Other Territories, which do not fall within a specific geographical group. Certain papers relating to general developments which do not form part of the regional fascicles will be added to the triennial volume.