"We are finding that this is not only in the backward economy of developing countries, even though most forced labor today is indeed in the informal or the background agricultural sector of Asia, Latin America and then Africa."
VOA: standard.2009.08.21
Confidence surveys are fairly coincident at best, if notbackward looking.
Here at FORBES, though, the last edition of the magazine we complete before heading off for the holidays in December is one that looks forward, notbackward: the 30 Under 30 issue.