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Globalization Offers Us Enormous Opportunities In The Race To Leapfrog In Development Processes. It Also Obliges Us To Set In Motion Processes Which Would Minimize Its Risks.

I Am Not Very Good At Statistics. I Am Also A Poor Thinker.

Because The Chinese Insistence On One Child, I Think The Proportion Of Older, Non-working Age Population Is Going To Rise Sharply In China.

I Sincerely Hope That The Difficulties That Are There In Iraq And Iran Can Be Resolved, That Iraq Will See A New Era Of Hope In Which Its People Will Enjoy A Full Sovereignty. And Also The Problems That There Is With Iran Can Be Resolved Through Dialogue Through Giving Diplomacy A Chance.

I Do Believe That India Needs A Lot More Foreign Direct Investment Than We've Got, And We Should Have The Ambition To Move In The Same League Many Other Countries In Our Neighborhood Are Moving. We May Not Be Able To Reach Where The Chinese Are Today, But There Is No Reason Why We Should Not Think Big About The Role Of Foreign Direct Investment, Particularly In The Areas Relating To Infrastructure, Where Our Needs For Investment Are Very Large. We Need New Initiatives, Management Skills, And I Do Believe That Direct Foreign Investment Can Play A Very Important Role.