a distinctive annual report, which will command world attention and hopefully contribute to the creation of a climate of opinion which may realize improvement in international development policy. 118. The Committee proposes to meet once in plenary session for a period of not more than five days. It further proposes to convene a representative working group of eight members, including the Rapporteur, for three days in the last auarter of 1985 in New York to prepare a draft outline of the Committee's report. The working group will be devoted to a general review of the state of world development and identification of specific themes to be covered in the report. The Rapporteur would undertake the preparation of a draft report based on the guidelines provided by the Working Group. The draft report would then be submitted to Committee members well in advance of the plenary session, which would be scheduled in the first auarter of 1986. That session would permit a full-fledged discussion of the report and would incorporate any new elements of the current situation which might have emerged during the intervening period. 119. The Committee has been informed by the Secretariat that the above arrangements do not entail additional budgetary appropriations. 120. As to the future work programme, the Committee has agreed to continue its work as envisaged in the May 1984 session. For its 1985 session, the Committee decided to focus its attention on the world economic situation and prospects, with particular emphasis on the capital needs of developing countries and the structure and trend of capital flows to them. 121. The Committee is deeply concerned with the current inadeauate level of resource flows to the developing countries. In many cases, those flows have become negative and may well remain so in the coming years. Yet a minimum level of 
**Analysis**
The text discusses the agenda and planning of a committee focused on international development policy, specifically highlighting the capital needs of developing countries and the structure of capital flows to them. This suggests that the committee is concerned with economic development and resource allocation, which are key aspects of economic development.

**Category**
Economic development, International trade