This quest for peace had become a strategic choice characterizing the policies and orientations of the region s Governments, impelling the peoples of the region to envision a future Middle East under a just and comprehensive peace.

This opens up a new policy option for the West impelling North Korea to dial back its foreign and security policy by deepening its economic and social engagement with the rest of the world. The benefits for the North would drastically change the regime s strategic calculus, particularly concerning nuclear weapons.

Recognition of the need to create a mechanism aimed at impelling governments to enact and enforce legislation making it compulsory for heads of low income and rural families to send their school age children of both sexes to school, and not to send them out to work before they have completed their primary education, with incentives designed to facilitate compliance by such families

Another, more uncertain assumption underpinning the bet on more inclusive growth is that the eurozone and Japan will be able to escape the mire of low growth and avoid deflation, which, by impelling households and businesses to postpone purchasing decisions, would undermine already weak economic performance. Finally, the bet assumes that oil exporting countries like Nigeria, Venezuela, and especially Russia will fend off economic implosion, even as global oil prices plummet.