It will point out - as I have pointed out on Newsnight, in my report from Lincoln last month - that there are pockets of success where industry has oriented itself to high-tech, export-led growth.

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In northern Mexico, along the border, industrial cities have benefited from economic openness, and companies in places such as Monterrey and Ciudad Juarez are producing a variety of increasingly high-tech products for export.

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Russian Technologies State Corporation was set up to assist in the development, production and export of high-tech industrial products.

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In 1985, the US began to issue export licenses for high-tech equipment.

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The fact is, even in this depressed world situation, economies that are export oriented, high-tech and can expand domestic services - including mixed-economy health services - are growing.

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This concern has been heightened by recent Chinese moves to tighten export quotas, as well as talk (so far just talk) about banning the export of certain rare earths entirely, presumably to favor the development of domestic high-tech industries.

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