Developing world fighting for survival — not solvency

While the financial world is on a rollercoaster, as confidence peaks and dips, in the developing world anxieties are not about solvency but survival.

The only shares they are interested in come in small bowls of which there are never enough to go around.

With such tumult in the markets governments are fixated with cutbacks and budget reviews. Foreign Affairs Minister Michael Martin is in the same boat.