Even if Cowen is wrong about the pitch of the technological plateau and the severity of income stagnation, he has nonetheless put radical innovation and economic growth back on the map.

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The growth is expected to continue in the future as well, with mobile map users in China estimated to reach around 600 million by 2015.

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And when the tax code lacks permanency, business owners have a hard time planning and must spend even more time and resources to map out the best routes for growth, says Bill Rys, tax counsel for the National Federation of Independent Business, a lobbying group in Washington.

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However, keeping in mind the robust product road-map and accelerating design wins by the company, we forecast a higher growth rate 2013 onwards.

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This competition between the states holds out the prospect of remaking the economic and political map of America, as new economic state powers pursuing pro-growth policies arise, replacing the over-the-hill, declining, economic state powers pursuing the blind alleys of sterile, defunct, redistribution policies of the past.

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Both it and the Times version also offer in their introductions some handy potted wisdom on the structure of the globe, the growth of cities, and other matters likely to pop into map-readers' minds.

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