Mr Gordham said South Africans needed to understand "how lucky they were, " not to have experienced the sort of public sector cuts hitting the UK, but he focused on the need to make economic growth "more inclusive, " to address the inequalities in society, and to ensure that geopolitical power, as well as investment, moved from the West towards Africa and the developing world.

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And, of course, trade--the US and the European Union are both pretty poor in their protectionist instincts towards the developing world.

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Nowhere is this more shocking than in the church's attitude towards the use of condoms in the developing world.

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The self-insurance against financial fragility is part of a more general bent towards precautionary saving in the developing world.

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There is, among almost the entire world, a unified view that Iran should not go down the path towards developing nuclear weapons.

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