5. Interrelationships

Read these quotes adapted from a speech by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to an Indian audience, and answer the questions which follow it True or False.

300 years ago John Donne said no man is an island.

In the world of 2008, our self-interest and our shared interest are the same. In my view the nature of our greatest possibilities and problems, from the economy to security and the environment, is transnational. The solutions to these problems must also be transnational. And this can only work with international institutions that promote cooperation out of shared interest and predictability and accountability.

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There is a great need to finance sustainable environmental development in developing countries. So while we will strengthen the World Bank's focus on poverty and on poverty reduction, the World Bank's capacity and its global reach should make it also for the first time the World Bank for the environment.…