Throughout this period, the brightest students were drawn away from their native lands, attracted by superior research universities and opportunities.

For example, Japan is in a good position to exploit synergies between an improved health care sector and its world class manufacturing capabilities, in the development of medical instrumentation.

To a people imbued with a deep sense of superior moral worth, historical achievement, and victimization by foreign powers, this state of affairs is unjust and unnatural.

Consistent policy and superior technology explain why Japan uses one tenth the energy that China uses to generate the same amount of economic output.

Due to its superior infrastructure relative to Senegal, Ghana has attracted many billions of dollars more in foreign investment and records much higher trade volumes.

In anglophone countries, presidents and prime ministers, not to mention some leading central bankers, boasted of superior financial systems that were the envy of the world.

When Iraqi Shiites, Kurds, and Marsh Arabs rebelled against Hussein, they believed that American forces would protect them against their brutal dictator s superior firepower.

China may be able to rely on policy reforms to boost productivity growth but, with relatively low innovative capacity, it will struggle to catch up with frontier technologies.

They, too, see the world through a prism that makes America continue to appear essential, but no longer preeminent.

There is an urgent need to connect centers of excellence in developing countries to allow scientists to interact with each other and for the facilities to be made available to scientists and engineers in other developing countries.

Israel has become post modern, producing new and sometimes startling synergies among its avant garde high tech sensibility, its secular and ever more orthodox religious identities, and its overall ethno nationalist outlook.

Allowing recognized artists to get away with behavior that would not be tolerated in lesser men is a tribute France pays to superior talent.

In collaboration with international scientific organizations, facilitate the establishment of a network of centres of excellence in developing countries to allow scientists and engineers to interact with each other and make use of state of the art research facilities offered by these centres Collect and compile best practices case studies, especially of newly industrializing countries that showcase the link between S T and socio economic development.

Thus, in considering the digital gap, we note that telephone, facsimile, telex and Internet communications are most developed in the North in what I call the connected countries whereas the South is sorely lacking in that regard.

Even at Japan s world beating export firms, reluctance to confront the ingrained interests of the old boy network has made it difficult to prune less profitable product lines and the workers who make them.

Government efforts to increase productivity in the service sector probably will be particularly important. For example, Japan is in a good position to exploit synergies between an improved health care sector and its world class manufacturing capabilities, in the development of medical instrumentation.

Without the ECJ s doctrines of direct effect and primacy, and without national courts that are willing to enforce these doctrines in their own jurisdictions, the EU most likely would not have attained the level of integration that it has.