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.)