The Millennium Institute green investment model shows how new investments of 2% of GDP in just six G20 countries, in each of the next five years, could create up to 42 million jobs.

FORBES: Note to International Unions: Jobs Are a Cost, Not a Benefit

According to Stephen Green, an economist at Standard Chartered, it has a budget surplus of 2% of GDP, if measured in the same way as in rich economies, and public-sector debt is a mere 16% of GDP.

ECONOMIST: China is pretty well placed to cushion a global downturn