So Outside Agriculture, In Manufacturing And Services,

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.

If You Don't Have A Functioning Financial System The World Economy Won't Be Revived. All The Major Economies Have Their Responsibility To Assist At A Pace Which Is Required To Clean Up The Balance Sheet Of The Banking System And To Ensure That Credit Flows Are Resumed.

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

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.

So Outside Agriculture, In Manufacturing And Services, We Must Create A Lot More Jobs. But That Also Means That We Must Ensure That Our Systems Of General Education And Technical Education Are In Line With The Job Requirements That A More Modern Manufacturing And A More Modern Services Sector Would Require.