UN General Assembly
1965

33. The phenomenon in the post-war era of what has been appropriately termed a revolution of rising expectations among the "have-nots" of the world has failed to find an adequate response from the "haves" of the world. The rapid process of decolonization instigated by the United Nations, and the creation, as a consequence, of a large number of Afro-Asian States struggling to find a foot-hold in the eddying currents and cross-currents created by economic systems which were appropriate to an earlier day, has added to the strength and accelerated the pace of that revolution. Caught in this maelstrom which it could not escape, the United Nations dealt with the symptoms as they arose, making a patchwork quilt of patternless responses which failed to take account of the deep-rooted malaise born of an ancient economy unsuited to the new conditions.