economies, improve technology and integrate faster into the world's commercial and financial establishment. They need the support of the international community in their efforts to improve the well-being of their people and to become more involved in world economic activity and its development. Economic growth and the process of development in the rest of the world, apart from a few exceptional countries in Asia, has been a disappointing and frustrating effort and experience. In the 1980s developing countries experienced prolonged declining economic growth. The declining trend in the 1980s has reached far below the situation in the 1970s, when output was increasing. The worsening situation is further compounded by the fact that population in most of the countries affected is increasing at a faster rate than economic growth, thereby drastically reducing the ability to invest in efficient use of resources, both human and material, for ' IM/10 A/S-18/PV. 6 43 (Mr. Obure, Kenya) development. As the Secretary-General notes in his report: "The track Pattern in the developing countries is apparently becoming firmly entrenched with no major change anticipated during the next few years if present economic trends and policies oontinue." (A/AC. 233/5, p. 7) Action must be taken to improve the functioning of the world economy and allow developing countries to play their role and, as the Secretary-General rightly emphasizes: "The economic difficulties of the majority of developing countries in the 1980s have been too widespread arrl the afflicted countries too diverse for the retrogression to be ascribed merely to poor domestic policy or random shocks to individual countries. 11 (ibid. ) The efforts in developing countries in the realization of the potentiality of resources, including human, are caught in a mass of interrelated and reinforcing problems in the international scene. The oomplex problems arising from declining 
**Analysis**
The text discusses the economic struggles of developing countries, highlighting the decline in economic growth, population growth, and the impact on their ability to invest in resources for development. It also emphasizes the need for international support and improvement in the world economy to allow developing countries to play their role. The text does not mention natural resources, agriculture, forestry, fishing, transport, communication, health, education, employment, humanitarian aid, culture, or science and technology specifically, but it is concerned with the economic development and international trade of developing countries.

**Category**
Economic development, International trade