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The aid givers would have to insist on tough conditions: not only effective economic-development plans, but also population-control programs and the reform of universities that produce too many lawyers and literary scholars, too few agronomists and engineers. If some LDCs equate these conditions with colonialism, they can refuse the aid. The givers must be prepared to aid some peoples ruled by one-party dictatorships — there are almost no impoverished democracies — while spurning the Idi Amins who blatantly trample human rights.
Any Marshall Plan for the developing nations would admittedly be imperfect. But consider the alternatives: for the LDCs, continued poverty; for the industrial nations, endless political threats and damage to their own economies. Rich and poor countries do not have to like each other to realize they have a common interest they cannot escape.
— George J. Church