THE year 2015 is that of the lunar Wood Goat – renowned for moderation. In mid-November 2014, the world’s most powerful economies pledged in Brisbane “to lift G-20’s GDP by at least an additional 2% by 2018.… If fully implemented… this will add more than US$2 trillion to the global economy and create millions of jobs”.
Brave words indeed after acknowledging that “the global recovery is slow, uneven and not delivering the jobs needed.… Risks persist, including in financial markets and from geopolitical tensions”.
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