So rather than repeating what he has said, let me share with you some of my concerns as we come to the end of this millennium and the beginning of the next. Let me also ask you, as you participate in the debate on these ideas over the next few days, to explore these issues and seek new insights on how we should proceed in the period ahead. The issues before us, as Prime Minister Jospin has noted, are not just financial. Financial issues are inextricably linked to structural and social issues. While we need to have the proper macroeconomic policies in place and to address issues of growth, capital flows, and exchange rates, we also need to attend to structural and social issues.
Education is long term.
Environment is long term. Health is long term. It is also the case that the connections between sound macroeconomic policies and actions, taken at times of crisis and during normal times, are complex. Thus we may find ourselves pleading for social sensitivity at a time of crisis when, because of the financial dynamics, the first things to be cut are social programs. And so there are situations, as in Indonesia, where we are dealing successfully with one social issue keeping children in schools while losing out on another children's health and nutrition.