In an environment in which the magnitudes of change are increasing as globalization spreads more widely than ever before, these are newly emerging policy tasks that we must work proactively to find solutions for.
It may sound a bit ironic, but we should always bear in mind that, although one of the causes of the current financial crisis was the further strengthening of interconnectedness among economies due to the rapid progress made in globalization, the process of overcoming this crisis will in its consequences also further strengthen globalization.