In an interdependent world, each country helps itself by getting its own economic house in order and helping other countries to do the same. That's the key to sustaining global growth and to facilitating the integration of our economies. And that is the path to prosperity into the next century. While there has been no open discussion of a common currency or a currency in which all of the South American countries link their currency to the U.S. dollar, there are plans to merge the stock exchanges so that eventually there will be a common stock exchange for our hemisphere. The three words can be broken down and explained separately, with the meaning then coming together.
Partnership is a business arrangement.
In a partnership you can have as many partnerships as you wish and you can have as many layers of partnership as you wish. A partnership is the most agile form of business and provides the most flexibility. As I have confirmed in two different interviews with officials at the World Bank, there is always a profit to be made in a partnership. It also can apply to governmental entities such as the World Bank or the United Nations. It should be noted that the definition of fascism is the merger of government and business.