The organization advised massive spending to bridge the gap, but Global Witness says more spending will not solve the problem.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

Japan's new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, who just took office last week, said his country hopes to be a "bridge" for the world as it faces challenges such as the global financial and economic crisis, climate change, nuclear non-proliferation and eradicating poverty.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

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.

BBC: Warning over infrastructure spending

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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