A couple of weeks ago, the APEC forum had a meeting in Japan to talk about growth strategies. Here by the conclusions, via the Japan Times:
• Contribute to improving quality of growth in the global economy.• Have an action plan and followup mechanisms in the growth strategy.
• Work on structural reforms complementing efforts of the Group of 20 major economies.
• Promote job creation, development of smaller businesses and entrepreneurship, and create new economic opportunities for women.
• Promote energy efficiency and improve research and development on the environment.
• Contribute to countering terrorism and pandemic diseases.
Besides saying almost nothing particular about growth, it includes - out of the blue - gender, environment, terrorism, and pandemics. It seems that this post-cold war deconstruction of security, helped by chaos theory and 'holisticity', is just making a hodge-podge out of political agendas. Hope it is just the transition....