Although foreign assistance can provide only a small fraction of the financial resources that will be needed to achieve the 2020 Vision, it is crucial to achieving the Vision. The current downward trend in international development assistance should be reversed. All industrialized countries should contribute at least 0.7 percent of their GNP to foreign assistance. Commitment to the 2020 Vision and associated actions not only will eliminate hunger, malnutrition, and poverty, but will also set the world on the road to sustainable, broad-based economic development. Lack of commitment, however, will lead to deeper human misery, greater social and political instability that will spill over national boundaries, further degradation of natural resources, and lost opportunities for improved well-being of people in both developing and developed countries.
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