"There is a sense in which rapid economic progress is impossible without
painful adjustments. Ancient philosophies have to be scrapped; old
social institutions have to disintegrate; bonds of caste, creed and race
have to burst; and large numbers of persons who cannot keep up with
progress have to have their expectations of a comfortable life
frustrated. Very few communities are willing to pay the full price of
economic progress."
- United Nations, Department of Social and Economic Affairs, Measures for the Economic Development of Underdeveloped Countries, 1951
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