But the real test will be whether the region's economy can be broadened and deepened.
Duncan said he would like to see more shareholders: "If the base can be broadened that can only be a good thing".
But leaders in the region have also used such power on behalf of national security, which can be broadened to encompass far more.
Some have criticized this practice as "Olympic tourism," but the I.O.C. and international sports federations say the Games' universal appeal can be broadened by including small nations, even if their athletes have not met qualifying standards.
Their goals can be broadened to include not just successful treatment, he suggested, but also the measures they want taken if they cannot be cured and advice on how to accomplish important tasks that might otherwise be left undone.
Theater artists and producers should be inspired by such work, which embraces theater's singular power: to contemplate our collective reality; as audience, actor and story engage in an unspoken discussion of what reality is, how definitions of reality can be broadened.
Every 20 years or so we see force work (to our disadvantage) in areas where it is disassociated with law and is applied without popular consen The question is not whether force works but whether, and how, the areas of community and the sence of community can be broadened to the point where force becomes universally as well as locally, beneficent.
But the scope for this can be broadened to some extent by the use of innovative arrangements such as the "Tobin tax" on international financial transactions, and by instituting special drawing rights linked to, but independent of, international financial institutions, for expanding "public goods" (as has recently been proposed by George Soros).
According to this study, conservation arrangements can be broadened beyond mere nature protection.
Moreover, the scope of value engineering can be broadened to address corporate-level systems and initiatives.
