message to the world that all people should have access to basic education, to modern technology and the tools to combat infectious diseases.

People lose in trade, and because our social safety nets here are so thin to begin with, the resistance is greater than it is in some of the other industrial countries.

Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.

The key to a resilient global recovery, where growth in each country advances growth in every country, is action directed at supporting demand at home.

President Obama has called for economic and political empowerment of women globally. The Equal Futures Partnership promotes removal of policy, legal, and regulatory barriers that hold women back at local, state and national levels.

The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.