Where There's A Will . . .

Economic development and, even more so, well-being and affluence are certainly goals which appeal to most countries and are quickly hoisted to a position of high priority. However, in many places they remain little more than abstract ideas and receive little more than lip service. Time passes, and there is much talk of the need for advancement, but close to nothing is done. For, aside from ritual praise of these goals, there is no deep-felt or far-reaching commitment and people find it hard to summon the will for what is, even in the luckiest nations, a truly daunting challenge.