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Address to the Board of Governors, September 25, 1972
dc.contributor.author | McNamara, Robert S. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-02-13T20:36:00Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-02-13T20:36:00Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1972-09-25 | |
dc.description.abstract | Robert S. McNamara, President of the World Bank, reported on the Bank’s operations in fiscal year 1972 and reviewed the progress of the Five-Year Program for 1969–73. He assessed the current state of development in member countries and outlined the program for the five years 1974–78. He explored the central issue of the relationship of social equity to economic growth. Given the shortfall in official development assistance, the debt problem, and the procrastination of the developed countries in dismantling discriminatory trade barriers, the Second Development Decade’s 6 percent growth target is not going to be met by many nations. The most persistent poverty is that of the low-income strata, roughly the poorest 40 percent of the total population in all development countries—who are trapped in conditions of deprivation. He argues that an urgent task is to reorient development policies to directly attack the poverty of the most deprived 40 percent of the population. Governments must achieve this without abandoning their goals of overall economic growth. Greater priority is needed to establish growth targets in terms of essential humans needs: nutrition, housing, health, literacy and employment, even at the cost of some reduction in the pace of advance in certain narrow and highly privileged sectors whose benefits accrue to the few. | en |
dc.identifier | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/426131468341113875/Address-to-the-Board-of-Governors-by-Robert-S-McNamara | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33328 | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.publisher | World Bank, Washington, DC | |
dc.rights | CC BY 3.0 IGO | |
dc.rights.holder | World Bank | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo | |
dc.subject | ABSOLUTE POVERTY | |
dc.subject | ACCESS TO CREDIT | |
dc.subject | ACCOUNTING | |
dc.subject | ADVICE TO GOVERNMENTS | |
dc.subject | AGRICULTURAL GROWTH | |
dc.subject | AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY | |
dc.subject | AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH | |
dc.subject | AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY | |
dc.subject | AGRICULTURAL YIELDS | |
dc.subject | AID AGENCIES | |
dc.subject | ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES | |
dc.subject | APPLICATION PROCEDURES | |
dc.subject | APPROPRIATE INCENTIVES | |
dc.subject | ARID TROPICS | |
dc.subject | BANK FINANCING | |
dc.subject | BORROWING | |
dc.subject | CAPITAL MARKETS | |
dc.subject | CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS | |
dc.subject | CITIZEN | |
dc.subject | CITIZENS | |
dc.subject | COMMUNITY OF NATIONS | |
dc.subject | CONFLICT | |
dc.subject | CONSOLIDATION | |
dc.subject | CONSUMER GOODS | |
dc.subject | COOPERATIVES | |
dc.subject | CREDIT POLICIES | |
dc.subject | CREDITS | |
dc.subject | CREDITWORTHINESS | |
dc.subject | CROPLAND | |
dc.subject | CURRENT PRICES | |
dc.subject | DEBT | |
dc.subject | DEBT BURDEN | |
dc.subject | DEBT PAYMENTS | |
dc.subject | DEBT SERVICE | |
dc.subject | DECENTRALIZATION | |
dc.subject | DECENTRALIZATION OF AUTHORITY | |
dc.subject | DEMOGRAPHIC PROJECTIONS | |
dc.subject | DEVELOPING COUNTRIES | |
dc.subject | DEVELOPMENT GOALS | |
dc.subject | DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES | |
dc.subject | DEVELOPMENT PLANS | |
dc.subject | DEVELOPMENT POLICIES | |
dc.subject | DEVELOPMENT POLICY | |
dc.subject | DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES | |
dc.subject | DIMENSIONS OF POVERTY | |
dc.subject | DISEASES | |
dc.subject | DROUGHT | |
dc.subject | EARLY DEATH | |
dc.subject | EARNINGS | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC GROWTH | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC PROGRESS | |
dc.subject | EMERGENCY PLAN | |
dc.subject | EXCHANGE RATES | |
dc.subject | EXPENDITURES | |
dc.subject | EXPORT EARNINGS | |
dc.subject | EXTENSION AGENTS | |
dc.subject | FAMILY FARMS | |
dc.subject | FAMILY PLANNING | |
dc.subject | FARM FAMILIES | |
dc.subject | FARM IRRIGATION | |
dc.subject | FARMERS | |
dc.subject | FEEDER ROADS | |
dc.subject | FINANCE MINISTRIES | |
dc.subject | FINANCIAL AID | |
dc.subject | FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE | |
dc.subject | FINANCIAL COMMITMENTS | |
dc.subject | FINANCIAL POLICIES | |
dc.subject | FINANCIAL RESOURCES | |
dc.subject | FINANCIAL STRUCTURE | |
dc.subject | FOOD SHORTAGE | |
dc.subject | FOREIGN EXCHANGE | |
dc.subject | GREATER ACCESS | |
dc.subject | GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT | |
dc.subject | GUIDE TO ACTION | |
dc.subject | HEALTH CENTERS | |
dc.subject | HEALTH SERVICES | |
dc.subject | HUMAN BEINGS | |
dc.subject | HUMAN DIGNITY | |
dc.subject | HUMAN LIFE | |
dc.subject | ILLITERACY | |
dc.subject | INCOME | |
dc.subject | INCOME DISTRIBUTION | |
dc.subject | INCOME GROUP | |
dc.subject | INCOME GROUPS | |
dc.subject | INCREMENTAL INCOME | |
dc.subject | INDUSTRIALIZATION | |
dc.subject | INEQUALITIES | |
dc.subject | INEQUALITY | |
dc.subject | INFANT | |
dc.subject | INFANT MORTALITY | |
dc.subject | INSURANCE | |
dc.subject | INTEREST RATE | |
dc.subject | INTEREST RATES | |
dc.subject | INTERNAL MIGRATION | |
dc.subject | INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE | |
dc.subject | INTERNATIONAL BANK | |
dc.subject | INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY | |
dc.subject | INVESTMENT PLANS | |
dc.subject | LAND CEILINGS | |
dc.subject | LAND REFORM | |
dc.subject | LAWS | |
dc.subject | LEGISLATION | |
dc.subject | LIFE EXPECTANCY | |
dc.subject | LIVES OF INDIVIDUALS | |
dc.subject | LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION | |
dc.subject | LIVING STANDARDS | |
dc.subject | MALNUTRITION | |
dc.subject | MILK | |
dc.subject | MINORITY | |
dc.subject | MODERNIZATION | |
dc.subject | MONEY LENDER | |
dc.subject | MONEY LENDERS | |
dc.subject | NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS | |
dc.subject | NATIONAL LEVEL | |
dc.subject | NET INCOME | |
dc.subject | NUTRITION | |
dc.subject | NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCIES | |
dc.subject | OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE | |
dc.subject | PEOPLES | |
dc.subject | PER CAPITA PUBLIC EXPENDITURES | |
dc.subject | PESTICIDES | |
dc.subject | PLAN OF ACTION | |
dc.subject | POLITICAL LEADERSHIP | |
dc.subject | POLITICAL POWER | |
dc.subject | POOR | |
dc.subject | POOR COUNTRIES | |
dc.subject | POOR FARMERS | |
dc.subject | POOR NATIONS | |
dc.subject | POPULATION INCREASE | |
dc.subject | PUBLIC SERVICES | |
dc.subject | PURCHASING POWER | |
dc.subject | QUALITY OF LIFE | |
dc.subject | QUANTITATIVE GOALS | |
dc.subject | RATE OF GROWTH | |
dc.subject | RATES OF INTEREST | |
dc.subject | REORGANIZATION | |
dc.subject | RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS | |
dc.subject | RURAL | |
dc.subject | RURAL AREAS | |
dc.subject | RURAL DEVELOPMENT | |
dc.subject | RURAL INSTITUTIONS | |
dc.subject | RURAL POOR | |
dc.subject | RURAL POVERTY | |
dc.subject | SAVINGS | |
dc.subject | SCARCE RESOURCES | |
dc.subject | SELF-RELIANCE | |
dc.subject | SHORT SUPPLY | |
dc.subject | SMALL FARM | |
dc.subject | SMALL FARMER | |
dc.subject | SMALL FARMERS | |
dc.subject | SMALL FARMS | |
dc.subject | SMALL LOANS | |
dc.subject | SMALL-SCALE AGRICULTURE | |
dc.subject | SMALL-SCALE IRRIGATION | |
dc.subject | SMALLHOLDER | |
dc.subject | SMALLHOLDER AGRICULTURE | |
dc.subject | SMALLHOLDERS | |
dc.subject | SOCIAL EQUITY | |
dc.subject | SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE | |
dc.subject | SOCIAL TENSIONS | |
dc.subject | SUBSISTENCE | |
dc.subject | SUBSISTENCE FARMERS | |
dc.subject | TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE | |
dc.subject | TECHNICAL INFORMATION | |
dc.subject | TECHNOLOGICAL CAPACITY | |
dc.subject | TRADE IMBALANCES | |
dc.subject | UNEMPLOYMENT | |
dc.subject | UPPER INCOME GROUPS | |
dc.subject | URBAN AREAS | |
dc.subject | URBAN SLUMS | |
dc.subject | URBANIZATION | |
dc.subject | VICTIMS | |
dc.subject | VILLAGE | |
dc.subject | WATER RESOURCES | |
dc.subject | WORKING CAPITAL | |
dc.subject | HUMAN NEEDS | |
dc.subject | WORLD BANK GROUP STRATEGY | |
dc.subject | EXTREME POVERTY | |
dc.title | Address to the Board of Governors, September 25, 1972 | en |
dc.title | Discurso ante la junta de Gobernadores, 25 de Septiembre de 1972 | es |
dc.title | Discours prononcé devant le Conseil des Gouverneurs, 25 septembre 1972 | fr |
dc.type | Speech | en |
dc.type | Discours | fr |
dc.type | Discurso | es |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
okr.date.disclosure | 2011-12-07 | |
okr.doctype | President's Speech | |
okr.docurl | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/426131468341113875/Address-to-the-Board-of-Governors-by-Robert-S-McNamara | |
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum | 000386194_20111208000325 | |
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum | 15535489 | |
okr.identifier.report | 55787 | |
okr.imported | true | es |
okr.language.supported | en | |
okr.language.supported | es | |
okr.language.supported | fr | |
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okr.pdfurl | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/426131468341113875/pdf/Address-to-the-Board-of-Governors-by-Robert-S-McNamara.pdf | en |
okr.pdfurl | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/276091468161969120/pdf/557870WP0FRENC0S-0McNamara000French.pdf | fr |
okr.pdfurl | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/563401468150583165/pdf/557870WP0SPANI0-0McNamara000Spanish.pdf | es |
okr.topic | Governance :: International Governmental Organizations | |
okr.topic | Macroeconomics and Economic Growth :: Development Economics & Aid Effectiveness | |
okr.topic | Poverty Reduction :: Inequality | |
okr.topic | Poverty Reduction :: Living Standards | |
okr.topic | Poverty Reduction :: Poverty Reduction Strategies | |
okr.topic | Poverty Reduction :: Pro-Poor Growth | |
okr.txturl | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/426131468341113875/text/Address-to-the-Board-of-Governors-by-Robert-S-McNamara.txt | en |
okr.txturl | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/276091468161969120/text/557870WP0FRENC0S-0McNamara000French.txt | fr |
okr.txturl | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/563401468150583165/text/557870WP0SPANI0-0McNamara000Spanish.txt | es |
okr.unit | Office of the President (EXC) |
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