UN General Assembly
1964

19. Accordingly, Malta welcomes the consolidation of the Special Fund and the Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance into a United Nations development programme. We regard this as a first step in the direction of achieving better planning, simpler administrative arrangements, greater flexibility and more effective results. Such consolidation, especially if carried into the field of the regular and special programmes of the individual agencies, may well prove to be conducive to better co-ordination between projects and to a reduction of administrative costs. It may not be out of place here to mention that, when account is taken of all factors, the contribution demanded of recipient countries towards the implementation of projects often exceeds 80 per cent of total costs. This is excessive. These are some aspects of the assistance given by the United Nations family in the economic and social field which would bear closer examination.