Section D offers some elements for planning infrastructure investments, which it sees as key to growth promotion. Programmes to achieve minimum standards of nutrition, health and education made a brief appearance in the interwar period as a philosophy of “colonial trusteeship” sought to deflect growing social discontent (Amdt, 1987: 27-29). But it was only during the Second World War and the subsequent struggle for political independence and local control over natural resources that a more serious discussion on infrastructure and development was launched.