What are the limits of the global market?
What are the limits of the global market?
«We must ensure that the global market is based on broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization».
How can one make the global market more attractive?
«We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face».
What needs to happen to make the global village a reality?
«Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community».
How strong is the global economy?
«Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility».
How important are women in bringing about global change?
«There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole — women and men alike — than the one which involves women as central players».
«More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development».
Where do you see the primary role of the UN?
«If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?»
What is the major challenge for the UN?
«We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will».
(On the UN's goal of cutting the level of global poverty in half by 2015)
2. Give Russian equivalents of the following words and phrases.
Slow moving; short-term profit; equality; to hold the post; vital; to deal with .(problems); a prerequisite; to lay out one's thoughts; beneficial; shared values; political will; to pull out of poverty; laws of gravity; by nature; prosperity; the means and capacity; fragility; underestimate; decade.
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