The handicapped exert little political influence. In the developing countries, particularly, governments beset by political, social, financial and economic problems on a formidable scale, have been unable to allocate high priority to the education, training and rehabilitation of their handicapped citizens. In the three declarations cited above, most members of the United Nations acknowledge implicitly and explicitly that the care and development of the handicapped are essentially governmental responsibilities, yet the allocation of funds for those handicapped physically or mentally through birth, disease or accident, lags all too far behind expressions of official goodwill.