Social Security Taxes and Total Payrolls

context. It has beeu a major thesis of United Nations work in the last decade that the problems in one prticulnr field or area wuuot be unclerstood merely in terms of the vari;~bles operating within that field ; in particular, it hs beeu emplinsized in various resolntious of the Economic nncl Social Council and of the (ieneral Assembly, and in various reports by the Secretary-General, that economic and social factors are so inextricnbly interwoven that 110 proper exlhnntion of clevelopmerits iii the one fielcl can be made without reference to trends iii the other. For this reason, in the regional chapters consideration has also been given to economic forces that have direct bearing upon social t rencls.