On August 13th, 1964 the Brazilian Ministry of Planning presented to Parliament an Action Program for 1964/66. This Program was the result of a few weeks of concentrated round the clock effort by a small team aasociated with the Ministry of Planning. Some members of the team were recruited for the purpose on an ad hoc basis; others were technicians working on various sector of the economy in other Ministries; a few were directly attached to the tiny Secretariat of the Ministry of Planning itself. The document is some 500 pages long. Over 300 pages relate to individual sectors: power, transport, agriculture, industry, education, housing, natural resources, and regional development, and the rest to general economic policies.16 p.