Both for nations and for individual men, avarice is the most evident form of moral underdevelopment. To speak of development, is in effect to show as much concern for social progress as for economic growth. It is not sufficient to increase overall wealth for it be distributed equitably. Economics and technology have no meaning except from the human person whom they should serve. And people are only truly human in as far as, masters of their own acts and judges of their worth, they are authors of their own advancement, in keeping with the nature given to them by their Creator.
Development demands bold transformations, innovations that go deep.
Urgent reforms should be undertaken without delay. It is for each one to take a share in them with generosity, particularly those whose education, position and opportunities afford them wide scope for action. Next to the underdevelopment of the many, there is a superdevelopment for the few, Superdevelopment leads to a throwaway society and to enormous waste. The more one possesses, the more one wants, while the deeper human hopes remain unsatisfied and even stifled.