Section 1June 6, 1973, Sec./Art. 1

Purposes. The purpose of the Academy are:

(a) To foster and support the developmental forces at work in the nation's economy through selective human resource development programs, research, data-collection, and information services, to the end that optimization of wealth may be achieved in a manner congruent with the maximization of public security and welfare;

(b) In line with the foregoing objective, to promote, carry on and conduct scientific, interdisciplinary, and policy-oriented research, education, training, consultancy, and publication in the broad fields of economics, public administration, and the political and social sciences generally, involving the study, determination, interpretation and publication of economic, political and social facts and principles bearing upon development problems of local, national or international significance;

(c) To discharge a regional role in initiating and catalyzing exchange of ideas and expertise on development activities in the region of Asian and the Far East.