We need a candid appraisal of past failures in our foreign aid programs and a sweeping growth-oriented revision of the IMF's austerity mind-set.
According to the California-based watchdog group Maquiladora Health & Safety Support Network, Mexico's sweeping industrial growth since the mid-1990s under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has ravaged border communities that depend heavily on low-wage factory work.
Beyond the histrionics and the politics, there were deeper reasons for the continuing clashes: in particular, the huge wave of industrialization and economic growth sweeping Asia.
"Of course we are feeling the pressure, with the slowdown in growth sweeping across the euro zone countries," Mrs. Josing said.
Rapid growth and sweeping economic changes have raised retail rents in many of Asia's growing metropolises in recent years.
In June the trade ministry released a sweeping new "growth strategy" that identifies a score of vibrant sectors meriting government assistance, from overseas construction to attracting medical tourists.
The novel is a mix of the smallest, funniest observations, essaying the many ways people succeed in saying exactly the wrong thing at exactly the wrong time, while also exploring sweeping themes, including the growth of technology, the rise of China, the dangers of individualism and instant gratification.
He came armed with a little booklet explaining how "sweeping away barriers to growth" would "benefit all of Europe".
In China, nature and culture have been bulldozed for decades in the service, first, of communist ideals, which entailed attacking traditions, then of fast-paced industrialization and capitalist-style economic growth, which are sweeping away whatever remains.
Yet much of this growth is from sweeping policy changes, government infrastructure projects, and big donor-driven or private investment programmes.
