That is why we need to make sure that the next generation of African entrepreneurs is fully equipped to grow prosperous businesses and lead the way for African growth.
There is still much to do as we seek a fully democratic, secure, peaceful and prosperous Europe.
Mr. Clinton was even more formal in his assessment of Mr. Putin, saying: "If you want to know what my personal assessment is, I think he is fully capable of building a prosperous and strong Russia while preserving freedom, pluralism and the rule of law.
For those of us, Russians and Americans alike, who have believed in the possibility of a strong, prosperous, democratic Russia fully integrated into the international system and as a close partner of the U.S., Putin's recent decisions represent a giant step backwards.
Today, it is a socially tolerant, prosperous nation with a fully functioning democracy.
Fortunately, Mr. Bosch had had the prescience to establish a rum distillery in Puerto Rico in 1937; that outpost and corporate entities registered in New York, Miami, the Bahamas and Bermuda gave Bacardi bases on which to rebuild and grow even more prosperous as a family-run, fully globalized company.
If the new Egypt, the most populous Arab nation in the world, empowers its women fully, it can also become the strongest, most prosperous and hopefully most peaceful nation in the region.
But the women at the heart of the protest movement say it was born of their outraged realization that no matter how accomplished they become, or how hard they work, women here will never fully take part in the promise of a new and more prosperous India unless something fundamental about the culture changes.
But even if Turkey's interests no longer fully align with ours, there is much to be gained from a Westernized, prosperous and democratic nation becoming the standard-bearer of the Islamic world.
It showed that a huge number of Europeans, in a time largely smiling and prosperous, liked engaging in raw, animal religious hatred, and only felt fully alive when they did.
