“Economic growth in developing countries” will be the theme of the week-long Rehovot Conference which opened yesterday at the Hebrew University and will continue at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. Fifteen ministers, including the Deputy Prime Minister of Lesotho, Nehemia Maseribane, and the Thailand Minister for University Affairs, Dr. Boonrod Binson, are among the 140 distinguished delegates of the conference which is sponsored by the Weizmann Institute. Among the 51 countries represented, the Republic of Vietnam is present for the first time. Latin America has a record participation and a number of representatives from African and Asian countries are also attending.
Among the delegates are Prof. Richard Hoggart, Assistant Director General of UNESCO, Prof. Simon Kuznets, the distinguished Harvard economist and Nobel Laureate, and Prof. Hollis B. Chenery, vice-president of the World Bank. Israeli participants will include Premier Golda Meir, Foreign Minister Abba Eban, and David Horowitz, chairman of the conference’s scientific committee and chairman of the Bank of Israel’s Advisory Council.
The Rehovot conferences, initiated by Eban in 1960, have been guided by the basic concept of bringing together scientists and leaders of new states in order to foster understanding and cooperation between these two key groups. Subjects discussed in previous conferences included planning of agriculture, fiscal and monetary problems, health and education, development of science and problems of urbanization.
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