UN General Assembly
1967

119. This matter is all the more important since it is improbable that the flow of international aid for economic and social purposes is likely to expand substantially in the near future. This, in spite of the fact that the capacity of developed countries to provide such aid, measured in terms of their rising per capita incomes, is increasing. The causes are basically two: rising expenditure on armaments and rising expenditure on new or expanded programmes of economic and social development within the rich countries themselves. At the same time, in poor countries. Governments must attempt to satisfy in some measure the rising expectations of their peoples for an immediate and visible improvement in their living conditions, in circumstances where regional or world tensions often require the allocation of increasing resources to defence. This creates conditions of great stress both within many poor countries and between poor countries and rich countries.