The Group of Thirty argue that it needs to be made easier to bridge the gap between global savings and long-term investment - otherwise countries will struggle to find the necessary funding for expanding infrastructure, factories and education.

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Meantime, a downtown medical college run by Dr. Freida Law, a pediatrician schooled in Australia, tries to put students in clinical settings from the outset, to foster appreciation of patient care and suffering. (Li hasn't forgotten his father's struggle with tuberculosis.) Again the emphasis is on contact with the wider world, using the Li Foundation's global medical research ties as a bridge.

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At Global Citizen Year, we believe that a bridge year after high school is an extraordinary opportunity to unleash the potential of a new generation of leaders.

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For many young people, entrepreneurship can become the bridge between science education and application of product solutions to global problems.

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Global mindset is thus the capacity to appreciate the differences among cultures and bridge the interfaces between them.

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The Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) has long-established links with the country including the China Bridge Project, which is aimed at tackling environmental issues like global food security as well as a collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences based on the environmental sciences.

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When you get to the crest of the bridge over the Thames River, you can see the center of global innovation in undersea warfare a mile down-river to your right, the Electric Boat division of General Dynamics.

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Global Terminal, however, has a strategic position within the port that allows ships to avoid contending with the Bayonne Bridge, and its terminal operators are taking advantage of it.

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