At the World Bank, officials fear that the monetary fund's economic prescriptions can hurt recovery, not hasten it.

But today Washington-backed economic prescriptions are being rejected up and down the continent.

To get back on track, the country has been given the familiar economic prescription of price rises, tax increases and public spending cuts.

For decades, the United States' economic prescription to friend and foe was almost a mantra in its consistency: leave it to the market.

If this is the case, then we are following the wrong economic prescription!

But the same is not necessarily true for the rest of the economic prescription being pressed on Japan.

But it is a threatening economic prescription for nearly everyone else.

Free-market economic prescriptions pushed by Washington have been discredited.

Will your economic prescriptions for Europe be the same as those you have applied in Spain?

However, the economies of Member States are very different and a single economic prescription will not suit 27 different countries.