(iii) Encourage population control by offering birth control and economic assistance. (The anti-abortionists are a large problem here.)
(iv) Vigorously prosecute transnational companies profiting from sweat shops and slavery.
Finally, here are some excerpts from the AP article I mentioned. It is titled "Obama: G20 brought economy back from brink" (September 26, 2009):
"While issuing lofty vows, the leaders failed to define how to accomplish many of them and were quickly back to bickering over details.
"They did not suggest, for instance, how the peer review process would be enforced. And they failed to mention that previous pledges to avoid protectionism had been ignored by nearly all 20 members.
"Disagreements over whether China should gain voting strength in the International Monetary Fund at the expense of European nations and over global warming language marred the summit.
"Obama talked about actions of the G-20 as creating or saving "millions of jobs." Yet the U.S. economy alone has lost 3.1 million jobs since January when Obama took office. Since the recession started in December, 2007, some 6.9 million jobs have disappeared."
"In an apparent reference to a recent trade spat in which the United States imposed punitive tariffs on Chinese tire imports, Hu called on the leaders to "resolutely oppose and reject protectionism in all forms.
"Leaders papered over differences on the executive bonus issue by avoiding language for specific caps, something that France had pushed for but that the United States had opposed. A U.S. push for stronger requirements for bank capital -- the cushion that banks hold against loan losses -- was included, but with many of the specifics over how the capital would be determined left to set at later meetings."
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