The piece will bring together 100 young people and emerging artists from seven Commonwealth countries.

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Overall, seven emerging-market capitals are more expensive than the Big Apple, including Beijing, Seoul and Tel Aviv.

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According to IMS Health, another consultancy, the seven biggest emerging markets will account for more than half of the industry's total sales growth this year.

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After growing seven and a half percent in 2010, the vast emerging market just managed to grow less than one percent last year.

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Even so, seven years after the crisis, and with growth in the emerging East Asian countries now strong, it seems odd that investment is still so weak.

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Besides these two countries, the emerging economic giant India also wants access to Chittagong port to send goods to its seven north-eastern states.

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