Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract The Colombo Plan for Co-operative Economic and Social Development in Asia and the Pacific (formerly in South and South-East Asia) was intended to be a cooperative framework plan between the older and newer → commonwealth countries in order to enable primarily South and South-East Asian States to help themselves through bilateral development agreements, focusing on both technical and capital assistance (see also → International Law, Regional Developments: South and South-East Asia; → Regional Co-operation and Organization: Pacific Region). The idea for the Colombo Plan goes back to a meeting of foreign ministers of the Commonwealth held in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in January 1950. It was a response to the deteriorating economic situation due to the huge damages caused by World War II in several South and South-East Asian countries. In some of the respective → developing countries, the living standards were even lower in 1950 than they were in 1940. The Colombo Plan, as it was worked out in 1950, initially comprised three regional members—Ceylon, India, and Pakistan—and four donor members from outside the region—Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. They decided to set up a permanent Consultative Committee composed of representatives from the Member States, and scheduled the first meetings in Sydney and London for the same year.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.157 | 0.020 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".