1.   Even rich nations often have intractable poverty.

2.   The rich industrial nations dominate the global economy, they believe.

3.   The rich industrial nations dominate the global economy.

4.   While poor countries have liberalised their Markets, rich nations have remained protectionist, especially in areas such as textiles and agriculture.

5.   For decades rich nations have been screwing money out of poor nations.

6.   ...rich nations, armed with superior weaponry.

7.   Yet people in rich nations use proportionally far more of the available resources than people in poorer nations.

8.   Among the rich nations of the West only the Japanese and Scandinavians have confined the problem of obesity to a tiny percentage of the population.

9.   And steering World Bank lending to the Third World may appear a sop from rich nations that have been steadily cutting their aid budgets.

10.   At the signing ceremonies here on Friday, rich nations pledged little new money but committed funds for further exploratory studies.