UN General Assembly
1950

103. We are, nevertheless, the first to realize that, if the economic conditions now prevailing in most of the world are allowed to persist, the development of democracy will be a difficult and time-consuming task. Our own Latin-American countries have shown how great an effort is needed to defend and develop democracy in the uneasy social conditions in which the inhabitants live. Hence the necessary action of the United Nations in bringing about a decisive improvement in the standard of living of the peoples of the world, even if it were not an objective expressly stipulated in the Charter, would be an indispensable means of achieving human dignity and the maintenance of peace.