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Sat 07 Jul 2008India points the way to new global realities
WORLD VIEW:'THE GLOBAL governance structure needs to be more democratic and more representative of all the people of the world, with a greater voice for the developing countries." The president of India, Shrimati Pratibha Devisingh Patil, made this case at a conference in Mumbai last week, organised by the country's leading think tank, the Strategic Foresight Group (SFG).
As she argued, "United Nations and the Bretton Woods institutions were set up in the post-second World War period in the 1940s as a reflection of the then world. That world has changed and these institutions must also change to reflect the realities of the contemporary world. New players, who can contribute solutions to global problems, should be accommodated."
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