| The world has grappled with enormous challenges in 2009 as the global economic crisis gathered pace, affecting all nations. The global economy seemed headed towards stabilisation a year after the collapse of financial icons in September 2008. But preoccupation with stemming the crisis placed a number of emerging global challenges on the back-burner, just as they had begun capturing global attention. |
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| At the same time, the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s spotlighted global interdependence and connectivity. As adverse repercussions rippled through developed and developing nations alike, joint actions by key players were taken to curb the worst ravages. The significance of partnerships was re-established. |
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| Partnerships must now be strengthened and deepened to address the issues still on the table. As the global financial crisis strongly indicated, problems left unattended can fester into major disasters - deflecting nations from the predominant task of development and adversely impacting hundreds of millions of people, both poor and rich, across the world. |
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| The Partnership Summit 2010 will be a platform for governments, businesses and civil societies to address key global issues, and India’s partnership role as a large developing nation in evolving roadmaps for the next decade. |
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