Address to the U.N. Economic and Social Council, United Nations, NY, December 5, 1968

[摘要] These are the prepared remarksof Robert S. McNamara, President of the WorldBank, International Finance Corporation, and the International Development Association (IDA). He declares that our common enterprise is to drive back poverty, to lift living standards and to enhance the dignity of man. The Bank intends to lend twice as much in the next five years as in the previous five. He discusses the Bank’s lending in Asia. He discusses new geographical accents. The Bank and IDA are nowready to finance state-owned development banks; and trainingof managers and agriculturalists. He discusses putting population policy at the center of future strategy.

[发布日期] 1968-12-05

[学科分类] 社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

[关键词] LIVING STANDARDS;EMPLOYMENT;CAPITAL MARKETS;EQUIPMENT;ECONOMIC GROWTH