control and encourage domestic resource mobilization and foreign investment. Such policies need to include realistic exchange rates, tariff reform and more market-oriented policies, such as the encouragement of agriculture and the privatization of parastatals. Market forces and an increasing role for the private sector are vital elements in ensuring that resources are allocated efficiently. Most countries recognize this, and many are putting such policies into practice. I welcome this whole-heartedly. It is a long and arduous road -as we in Brita in know very well - but it is vital to oontinue with properly organized structural adjustment programmes. Equally, it is important to protect the most vulnerable groupS in implementing these programmes. We recognize the arguments for structural adjustment "with a human face". We take them fully into account in tarqettinq our aid programme and in our support for Governments which, in carrying out structural reforms, do all in their power to ensure that the poorest and most vulnerable sections of the population are not those that suffer most. BHS/ASW A/S-18/PV. 4 37 (Mrs. Chalker, United Kinqdom) Essentially, t.he central role of qovemment should be to hold the rinq -to create the economic conditions in which private enterprise can act as an enqine fbr growth. 'lb perform this role effectively, as the recent World Bank report on the perspectives for sub-Saharan Africa painted out, government must be qood qovemment. Government should not seek to control evervthinq. It must, above all, allow diversity -not just economic diversity but POlitical diversity too. The experience of Eastern Europe teaches us that you cannot expect to have one without the other. Each society must develop its own political nodel, but some form of democratic pluralism is essential. The poorer countries need help as they tackle their problems, as the major donors recognized at the Development Assistance Committee high-level meeting of the 
**Analysis**
The text discusses economic development, specifically in the context of structural adjustment programs, foreign investment, and the role of government in creating an environment conducive to private enterprise. The language used is technical and policy-oriented, indicating a focus on macroeconomic issues rather than specific sectors like agriculture or industry.

**Category**
Economic development, International trade