UN General Assembly
1952

108. This Assembly will also have an opportunity to consider the steps that have been taken to stimulate increased productivity in other fields. It is clear from the report submitted by the Secretary-General to the Economic and Social Council [E/2265] that methods are available by which marked increases in productivity could be achieved immediately. These methods would differ greatly from country to country according to local conditions, but the essential fact is that considerable increases can be achieved by the countries themselves through technical assistance and better utilization of existing tools and equipment. 109. Increases in productivity by such methods can result — and indeed in many places they have resulted — in direct and immediate improvements in standards of living. And, as I have remarked before, the best guarantee of increased investment, both public and private, is such increased productivity. It is imperative, of course, that such increased output be fairly distributed in the form of better incomes for workers and lower prices to consumers.