But the politicians' certainty about the right shape for the economy is nevertheless worrying, for the experts often get it wrong.Three years ago the big idea was that Britain's recovery would be based on exports, investment and a "march" of manufacturing firms.
Canada's focus on natural gas will be based on exporting it and using gas in the oil sands development process, the latter accounting for a third of the country's total gas usage.
The agency's three key recommendations are: Eligibility for debt relief should not be based on exports alone, as is the case under the current HIPC initiative, but should also be based on the share of debt servicing in the national budget.
The answer is yes -- not because I have any fond feelings about multinational corporations, but because every one of those development success stories was based on export-led growth.
America is China's largest trading partner; the country's entire economic model is based on exporting things to America and Europe.
As in Africa, much of that success has been based on exports of commodities, especially to China.
Much of the recovery is based on exports, he added, while jobless rates have not yet fallen from their record highs.
More than a fifth of economic output and a quarter of employment are based on exports, making it particularly vulnerable to a fall in global growth and trade.
The Mabey family firm, whose worldwide empire is based on exports of steel bridges, is accused by its former sales manager of misconduct in sales to Jamaica, the Dominican Republic and Panama.
Second, fears of a "hard landing" for the Chinese economy have affected the entire region, because so much of Asia's economic and corporate-profit growth is based on exporting commodities and manufactured goods to the world's workshop.In this section Abbey ending?
