The United Nations Development Decade at Mid-point

Abstract

Modern technology, for the last hundred years or more, has unlocked the doors of skill and output, confounded the gloomy prophets of inherent physical limitation and so fantastically increased man’s power to produce that, in developed economies, to sustain sufficient demand is more the problem than to mobilise sufficient supply. This technology is, naturally and inevitably, one of the developing nations’ chief hopes for the successful achievement of modernisation and for any considerable bridging of the gap between rich and poor.