Tall buildings, new financial centers, energy cities, new university hubs -- they are all being built.
Financial centers like London and Singapore have strong Indian populations, and Indian entrepreneurs are famous for their global mobility.
The problems that Main Street faces could be solved locally, without recourse to the financial markets that Wall Street and other financial centers orchestrate.
Both offer a myriad of opportunities and positives as the homes of financial centers, world-class culture, leading universities, sports teams galore and high-end restaurants.
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But none of this says very much about what may be the single greatest Asian opportunity in coming years for wanna-be financial centers - selling bonds.
The fact that these same arguments were not made publicly by influential political and financial centers in 2001 is partly why we have a 2012 mess.
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Operators, known as hawaladars, pool remittance cash with funds from their other businesses and deposit them into traditional bank accounts or dollar-denominated accounts in Dubai or other financial centers.
Offshore finance and information services are important foreign exchange earners and thrive from having the same time zone as eastern US financial centers and a relatively highly educated workforce.
But London is growing faster than other financial centers, such as Singapore, as a hub for offshore yuan payments, including payments for currency trading, imports and exports, and dim-sum-bond settlements.
The City of London is gaining an edge in the race with other global financial centers to snatch a slice of offshore trade in the yuan, also known as renminbi.
The event, held far from financial centers and attended this year by some 40, 000 investors, is a sort of pep rally for Berkshire and its brand of Main Street, basic-business values investing.
Over the past twenty years I have traveled around the world several times, visiting all of the major financial centers as he taught professional traders and money managers my approach to the financial markets.
Investors, savers, borrowers and issuers turn to these financial centers because they are in search of returns that are higher, or funds that are less expensive, than they can obtain in their own local communities.
But as competition from other financial centers intensified, London let its standards slip, relying on its fabled light-touch regulation and the lure of deep pools of passive money to attract businesses that ordinary British savers should never have been exposed to.
Rebecca Joffrey points out that the shakeup in major financial centers such as Wall Street and the City of London has made managerial jobs with blue-chip commercial and industrial companies a more desirable choice for many of the brightest and best MBAs.
Spurred by rising fiscal deficits, the United States and other members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), particularly Germany and France, have been using a variety of methods to clamp down on tax cheats, tax havens and overseas financial centers.
The city is also a principal banking and finance center, and the home to more than 30 international financial institutions, helping to make San Francisco rank eighteenth in the world's top producing cities and fifteenth place in the top twenty global financial centers.
And, just to stave off boredom, and to attract some practical (paying ) participation, I suspect, one of the organizations he works with runs the Financial Centre Futures which tracks the relative rise and fall of financial centers around the world, which I wrote about a few months ago at Forbes.com.
The conference audience was the right one from which potential whistleblowers could be drawn: It included representatives from offshore entities, high-net worth individuals and others who have information about offshore strategies, including attorneys, judges, trustees and businesses from the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, the Bahamas and other offshore financial centers.
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Volkswagen's operations in the United States include research and development, parts and vehicle processing, parts distribution centers, sales, marketing and service offices, financial service centers, and its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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The bank also has partnered with the Books for Kids Foundation, which promotes literacy among children, to roll out five preschool financial-education literacy centers in Wilmington, Del.
As developing economies like China and India create more regional centers of financial power, a strong EU is "life insurance" for Germany's future, especially as the eurozone represents only about 9% of the world population, Westerwelle continued.
Potential participants include users and producers of systems and components for telecommunications carriers, Internet exchanges, financial markets, data centers, multiple system operators (MSOs) networking systems, high-performance computing, network storage and servers and other individuals interested in future IEEE 802.3 Ethernet wireline standards.
The geographical department of Chumbivilcas, for which Santo Tomas serves as the capital, is historically one of the poorest in Peru and cut off not only geographically from the power centers and financial interests of the Pacific coast, but most resources and government services thereof.
And all the while, I have watch services exported as well, in call centers, in financial services, in IT services, in publishing, and on and on.
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Lessons include in-school visits from local entrepreneurs and field trips to Junior Achievement centers where kids learn financial lessons such as opening a bank account.
Knuff said that Equinix has nearly 700 network connections inside its data centers, so a financial firm that wants to connect to South America or Asia or Europe has a choice of network providers.
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Technology and financial companies that rely on data centers for information storage and communication (companies such as Microsoft or Goldman Sachs) need to be especially careful about minimizing the cooling expenses associated with these operations.
Chivore says these public benefits help workers gain additional financial stability and reduce staff turnover at the centers.
Amazon Web Services, a far more tolerant platform, exiled WikiLeaks from its data centers two weeks ago, and financial firms have moved to choke the company too, including Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, and most recently, Bank of America.
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