UN General Assembly
1962

143. This brings me, after peace and decolonization, to the third panel of the triptych which illustrates our agenda: aid to the under-privileged countries. My country took much comfort from the latest meeting of the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the bodies connected with the Bank. The participants stressed in quite a new way, the problem which under-development poses for the world. There is a disturbing and daily increasing gap between living conditions in the industrialized countries, which are constantly improving, and those in the under-privileged countries, which seem threatened by automatic deterioration.