Globalisation and Linkages to 2020:
Challenges and Opportunities for OECD Countries
by
Ulrich HIEMENZ
Abstract
A vision of the world in 2020 that can inpire OECD
policy makers and public opinion must offer to those
entering the prime of life at that time the prospect of
many healthy and productive years, enjoying
the fruits of their labour, reaping the rewards of
investments in education, and liing in societies with a
strong sense of social cohesion basedon an equitable
sharing of the benefits of openess and growth. That
vision encompasses the entire community of nations,
more and more closely bound togetehr by twenty-five
years of growing economic interdependence, sharing
a commitment to a multilateral system of rules-based
competition and of governance institutions that have
helped extend prosperity to an ever growing proportion
of the world's people, and united in their
common concern to safegurad the earth's natural wealth
and theglobal environment for teh benefit of generations
still to be born.
(This is from the last section, A Final Comment, from the full text paper.)