UN General Assembly
1994

alienation, joblessness and incarceration must be broken. Otherwise, those nice new economic edifices we are so carefully constructing will come crashing to the ground, undone by the confrontation and social chaos that continued marginalization of our youth will surely engender. 5 We repeat, then, that small, hitherto hardy, democracies must not now be swamped by a heedless forward march of soulless economic principles. And the case for urgent Bretton Woods social and economic assistance should be even more compelling in the instance of voluntary, vis-à-vis imposed, structural adjustment. We are somewhat embarrassed that, almost 50 years on, this journey into a putative glorious world order just now sees us seriously crafting new substantive agendas for what are really some very old problems. Yet, we must deal with reality. The development decades and the new international economic order were, in part, chimeric or exercises in rhetoric. But I believe we are truly now engaged in writing a new, coherent, agenda for development. Let it be a properly annotated agenda. In fact, let it be a fully programmed model that entirely