One thing that I was relieved to discover when I reached the end of the book was that, while I certainly gained new insights into many specific issues from reading it, nothing I came across in Awakening Giants caused me to wish I could go back and alter fundamentally anything about my own brief treatment of China-India comparisons in China in the 21st Century.
Indeed, a recent report from the United Nations Development Programme states that "by 2020, the combined economic output of three leading developing countries alone - Brazil, China and India - will surpass the aggregate production of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the UK and the United States".
Britain's leaders have been promising a green economy for many years but Germany, Denmark, the US - and now increasingly China and India - are taking a market lead.
No wonder World Bank president James Wolfensohn (an Australian-born American) warns that huge segments of the world's poor -- including those in China and India -- will lose access to concessional financing, if the IFIAC recommendations are followed.
For this reason, communities may need to look further afield - particularly to emerging markets in China and India - if the system is to remain relevant, according to local government expert Tony Travers of the London School of Economics.
This is going to be a huge global industry - as China and India become high-impact consumers - and we should lead it.
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"We're hemmed in between two of the most populous and powerful nations on earth--India and China--and it's important that people realize the future survival of Bhutan doesn't depend on any single individual, " the King told TIME.
First, the global economic playing field is being leveled, and millions of people who were out of the game - from China, India and the former Soviet empire - are now walking onto the field, each dreaming of a house, a car, a toaster and a microwave.
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And he promised to give large emerging markets--like India and China--a bigger say on the Fund's board.
That's not far or fast, but it's enough to make the EN-V useful for cutting down congestion in urban settings, particularly high-density cities in China and India, Borroni-Bird said.
China and India -- Will remain the predominant sources of global energy demand growth.
This includes vast portions of China and India -- the latter alone has 200 million educated, English-speaking people.
It is number one in each of the fastest-growing markets--China, Southeast Asia and India--and its global sales and manufacturing are so well honed that Nokia takes 80% of the industry's profit on 38% of the volume.
International revenue surpassed domestic U.S. revenue for the first time, as sales in the rapidly growing BRIC countries--Brazil, Russia, India and China--expanded 58%.
Leading European and US retailers have come under growing pressure to ensure that workers in their supply chain - particularly in labour-intensive markets such as India and China - are not exploited.
With potentially more lightly regulated non-EU markets like China and India crying out for American-style English-language TV, the UK's Anglo-American press barons see only problems in a more integrated Europe.
In informal overnight discussions, ministers from the powerful BASIC group - Brazil, South Africa, India and China - held the line that talks should not begin before 2015, and should only take effect when current pledges on reducing emissions expire in 2020, sources said.
They, and other companies, have helped finance ten HFC23-destruction projects so far in China, India and other countries--doing as much good as removing 58 million tons of CO2 a year from smokestacks.
The rise of low-wage manufacturing in China and low-wage services in India is moving jobs overseas.
Influences of Buddhism and Confucianism can be found - again relics of waves of migration traceable to lands as distant as northern India and China - and the animistic beliefs of the indigenous Balinese remain a guiding influence for much of daily life.
Earlier this evening I had a meeting with the last four leaders I mentioned -- from China, India, Brazil, and South Africa.
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Ms Gillard said she wanted to refocus Australia away from Europe's "old countries" towards its near neighbours - particularly China and India.
The Copenhagen Accord is based on a proposal tabled on Friday by a US-led group of five nations - including China, India, Brazil and South Africa.
The second line of work we undertook with respect to strategy in Asia was to engage intensively with the emerging power centers in the region -- like China and India and Indonesia.
He added that the proposed fund would not alter plans by BRICS nations--Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa--to set up their own development bank.
It is a fact that the pace of growth in some of the emerging countries of the world, emerging economies of the world creates a vastly increased demand for fossil fuels -- growth in China, growth in India, growth in Brazil and elsewhere -- and that creates more demand, and that has an impact on oil prices.
Despite an increase in economic cooperation between Beijing and New Delhi -- according to some analysts, China should become India's largest trading partner next year -- geographic and historical factors continue to contribute to mutual suspicion.
Working closely with a formal interagency committee and private sector stakeholders, Mr. Weiss negotiated with U.S. trading partners -- including Brazil, China, the EU, India, Korea, and Mexico -- to address problematic regulations that impeded market access for U.S. producers of numerous industrial and agricultural goods.
If Western Civilization is in decline, it is not because of economic up-and-comers like China and India.
China, India, Japan -- all these countries are all thinking about new ways to find clean energy.
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