UN General Assembly
1954

27. The various programmes already instituted have done little more than scratch the surface. If proof of this is required, it is amply demonstrated by the fad to which I have already referred, the widening in recent years of the gap in living standards between the more fortunate and less fortunate parts of our globe. 28. The United Nations technical assistance Programme has done excellent work in this field within its extremely limited resources. But its achievements have been pitifully inadequate in relation to the overall need. 29. We of the under-developed areas do not ask charity. There is no under-developed country which is not putting everything it can afford into meeting this challenge. Burma, for instance, has an eight-year programme of economic and social development which engages the attention of every leader and draws on our every resource. In spite of this, however, we will need assistance if the programme is to be successfully implemented.