The publication of the article coincides with the 13th round of India-China border talks, which both sides have termed as positive.
"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.
And he promised to give large emerging markets--like India and China--a bigger say on the Fund's board.
India - like China - has refused to commit to emission cuts in the new treaty until developed nations, particularly the US, also pledge to meet climate change targets.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
For starters, by 2020, when these tariffs go into effect, India and China--with GDPs projected to grow anywhere from 6% to 10% annually--will have much bigger economies with huge domestic markets that they are increasingly opening to each other.
At a time of rising competition from India and China--not only in manufacturing but also in high tech--and of concern over jobs creation at home, we're about to seriously handicap our own cutting-edge technology companies and domestic startups by crippling an instrument that's key to their survival and success.
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.
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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Among the five Brics nations--Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa--all but China are rated just a notch above junk by global credit-rating firms.
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.
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.
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.
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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The political changes in the last generation are creating a rapidly growing class of entrepreneurial capitalists around the world--in India, China, Brazil and eastern and central Europe.
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.
Oil is high because of uncertainty over Iran, disrupted supplies from Nigeria and Venezuela, crazy U.S. regulations prohibiting exploration and production in most of the Outer Continental Shelf and parts of Alaska, and expanding energy appetites in fast-growing India and China.
Russia will have 76% more centa-millionaires over the period, with India and China more than doubling their uber-rich population by 114% and 106% respectively, according to The Wealth Report.
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.
The country has undergone a period of sustained growth that has seen it become -- along with Russia, India and China, the so called "BRIC" countries -- one of the most important developing economies on the planet.
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.
For the first time, countries that have been on the watch list for two years -- including China, Russia, India, Sri Lanka and Egypt -- will automatically be moved to the Tier 3 blacklist next year without a presidential waiver if they fail improve their trafficking record, the State Department 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.
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