1300 



America has never believed that the values of justice, well-being, and human 

 dignity could be realized by one nation alone."® 



That the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer is not an un- 

 proven hypothesis but rather a commonphice. The cartoon by LePelley 

 in The Christian Science Monitor of October 4, 1973, entitled "Quo 

 Vadis?" graphically portrays the essence of the problem. Western 

 progress, depicted as a fleet of fast-flying jet planes, leaves behind the 

 "Less Developed Countries," depicted as a bedraggled, emaciated, 

 barefoot figure in tattered robes. The vast distance in space between 

 the two, the speed of the jets and the immobility of the figure, suggests 

 a mood of hopelessness for the LDC who, as the symbolic figure, is left 

 behind and plaintively asks with out-stretched arms. "Where are you 

 going?" What is shown graphically by LePelley is demonstrated sta- 

 tistically in Figure 9 and Table 37 on the development gap. 



Literature on development and brain drain stress this disparity 

 between the developing and the advanced countries as a matter of fact. 

 In 1966, Gregory Henderson told the State Department-sponsored 

 conference on the migration of talents and skills : 



. . . Setting aside the migration of talent from Britain, Germany, etc., and 

 concentrating on that from the far more defenseless developing countries, no 

 value with which the "brain drain" is concerned exceeds the developmental. 



The facts need little rehearsal. Secretary-General U Thant, Mr. Paul Hoffman, 

 the chiefs of many governments including our own, have given persuasive, shock- 

 ing evidence of the growing gap between rich and poor in the world. Half the 

 world has per capita income of $100 or under where we have $3,000. Five percent 

 of the world's nations have 95% of its science, the rest have as good as no 

 science at all. Some .30,000 people die in the poor nations every day of preventable 

 causes. There seems no end to the statistics of development gap horror.'** 



TABLE 37.— THE DEVELOPMENT GAP 



Developing Developed 



Indicator countries countries United States 



Per capita GNP 



Population (millions, mid-1971)_ 



Population growth rate (percent).. 



Literacy (percent) 



Protein consumption (g'ams per person per day) 



Calorie consumption (per day) 



Life expectancy (vears) 



Infant mortality (death per thousand live births) 



People per physician _ _. 



Per capita power consumption (annual kilowatt-hours output 

 perperson) 220 5,140 8,000 



Source: Based on U.S. Agency for International Development, "Development and Humanitarian Assistance, Fiscal 

 Year 1973 Program Presentation to the Congress," p. B-1; and U.S. Agency for International Development, "Selected 

 Economic Data for the Less Developed Countries," June 1972, p. 8. (Reproduced from Robert E. Hunter, project director, 

 "The United States and the Developing World: Agenda for Action," 1973 (Washington: D.C., Overseas Development 

 Council, 1973), p. 123. 



•"8 U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Media Services, Challenges 

 of Interdependence. Address by Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger before the Sixth 

 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly. Washington, Apr. 15, 1974, p. 3. 

 (Italics added.) , 



For a discussion of the interrelationship between the widening development gap and 

 prospects for international peace and stability, see Brzezlnslil's, Between Two Ages: Ameri- 

 ca's Role in the Technetronic Era, Chapter 3 entitled, "Global Ghettos." Brzezinslii warns 

 that the Third World confronts "the specter of insatiable aspirations." With the spread 

 of education and communications, "passive resignation may give way to active explosions 

 of undirected anger." (pp. 35-36) He predicts that "feelings of intensive resentment will 

 most likely grow as the gap widens." Less developed areas containing the majority of the 

 world's population and experiencing at best only partially effective progress will by the 

 year 2000 "in all liljelihood be the centers of volatile political activity, resentment, tension, 

 and extremism." (p. 50.) .,.,...•.« 



'80 Department of State, Proceedings of Workshop on the International Migration oj 

 Talent and Skills, October 1966, pp. 120-121. 



