UN General Assembly
1982

23. Considerable efforts have been made by the developing countries to use existing institutions in order to achieve the kind of harmonization which is a cherished goal of the Charter. We have endeavored to bring the kind of new thinking to the World Bank system that will help it keep pace with the constantly changing perceptions of economic development. At the joint annual meetings of the Board of Governors of the World Bank, held in Ontario in September, the Minister of Finance of Sri Lanka made the following observation: “These institutions are not independent entities living and moving in a world apart. They are creatures of the international economic environment. And it is policy-makers and politicians who shape and reshape that environment."