Ukraine is already struggling.

India, too, has massive potential to grow fast and reap a demographic dividend, but it has been struggling with structural reform.

Yet, while the official summit in Cancún struggled to a conclusion, an unofficial one being held a few minutes away also concluded.

Commercial banks found it advantageous to accumulate weaker countries bonds to earn a few extra basis points, which caused interest rates to converge across the eurozone.

Consider a struggling firm that is trying to improve its competitive position.

As a declared non nuclear weapon state, Indonesia has always striven for nuclear non proliferation indeed, for a world free of nuclear weapons.

That is because in most African countries, even men s national teams are struggling.

While China s economy is growing very rapidly, Japan is still struggling.

They had fought against the attitude of successive governments that based their policies on silence, lack of information and manipulation.

The result was a minority government that struggled for support and legitimacy, and in the end offered only policies that provided no real answer to the country s underlying problems.

And, of course, most of them are struggling to survive financially.

We must also maintain a distinction between acts of terrorism and the right of peoples fighting for self determination.

But, while the assault on the Qing Dynasty by foreign powers is a historical fact, the notion that there has been one enduring China struggling against avaricious outsiders across several millennia is false and self serving.

Without the benefits of trade, much of rural Africa struggles at subsistence levels.

Even hospitals that are part of the same system sometimes struggle to share patient information.

Egypt is not the first country to struggle in the critical revolutionary pivot from a repressive past to a better and more just future.

Or they may be struggling to introduce democratic accountability while maintaining stability, as in Egypt.

Generations of doctors, politicians, and public health officials have struggled to defeat tuberculosis.

Fortunately, there are groups like EILER which are campaigning for the elimination of the worst forms of child labor in the country.

The network of Women in Law and Development in Africa (WILDDAF FEDDAF) fights for women's equality and defends their rights, and provides training for paralegal personnel.

Another time, when our path took us by a tranquil stream, I saw a man sitting and watching his line, seemingly at peace with the world, while next to him, fish he had already caught were flapping helplessly and gasping in the air.

Rapidly growing catch up economies are paddling furiously to avoid being dragged down by a torrent of capital inflows.

Both Iran and the Arab countries are struggling to come to terms with the consequences of Iran s newfound assertiveness.

Their governments would fight hard to protect these companies from being required to pay for the societal risks that they represent.

India, too, has massive potential to grow fast and reap a demographic dividend, but it has been struggling with structural reform. We expect that India s expansion will slow to 5.6 in 2012, from 6.5 last year.

As they struggle to raise new capital, European banks and insurers are likely to be forced to sell overseas assets.

NATO is supposed to be a beacon for countries struggling to establish democracy and freedom.

But some vulnerable countries are still struggling to finance countercyclical investment and expanded social protection services.

The time had also come to compensate and stimulate the peoples who fought for their freedom by following the peaceful path laid out by the United Nations.

Europe, where shared sovereignty has been embraced, is struggling to solve its own problems, never mind becoming a global player.

Meanwhile, America s former rival, Russia, is struggling to restore its hegemony over many of the ex Soviet countries.

This positive attitude is a key to success, and all actors on the ground should strive to turn it into a daily reality.

While the unremitting violence in Iraq grabs the world s headlines, Afghanistan still struggles for peace.

Indigenous, African American, and mestizo (mixed) communities have been fighting for their social, political, and economic rights ever since.

The Unit against Harmful Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children (CPTAFE) runs awareness campaigns on female excision and other degrading practices.

Obama s praise of Egypt s Hosni Mubarak as a man with whom one could do business demoralized Egyptian opposition groups, which have been struggling against the long serving autocrat and his efforts to ensure that his son, Gamal Mubarak, succeeds him.

There is more to come. As they struggle to raise new capital, European banks and insurers are likely to be forced to sell overseas assets.

As the European Commission struggles to secure a clear negotiating mandate from all 27 member states, the US will face its own internal coordination problems.

In the last few weeks, political stability in Greece and Portugal has been threatened as governments struggle with declining credibility and a rising popular backlash.

First, although some parts of the economy reached advanced industrialization in record time, other parts (and institutions) are struggling to catch up.

Newspapers in most advanced countries are struggling or folding, and investigative reporting is often the first thing they cut.

And, at the root of this multiplicity of perspectives lays the fact that economics struggles to explain how growth and innovation move an economy as a whole.

We would pass people fishing, perhaps reeling in their lines with struggling fish hooked at the end of them.

But the two CEOs couldn t agree on terms, and now the CTO s company is dead while the other company struggles with inadequate technology.

Even the world s richest nation, the United States, struggles to implement much needed reforms for some of its most important social institutions including its health and education systems.