In a great crescent stretching 10,000 miles from Iran to Japan live more than a fourth of the world's 3.1 billion people. This is non-Communist Asia, whose vast size and vaster human reservoir make its bitter struggle for a better life of particular concern to all nations. Last week a new report from the United Nations showed just how hard that struggle is and how far most of the 22 Asian nations in the survey must go before reaching even the most preliminary goals.
The Asian-born, Western-trained economists who directed the survey are worried most about the crisis facing...
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