Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

…Commission for Europe and the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East. Similar commissions were established for Latin America in 1948 and for Africa in 1958. The major work of economic reconstruction, however, was delegated to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank), one of the major…

…Far East (later renamed the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific) and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, and in the early 1960s a new program for integrated study took shape under the Mekong Committee.