Undaunted by the global slowdown in consumer spending, Bissell is pressing ahead with Fab's expansion in India and beyond.

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We are also focused on the region, on the new Silk Road, on the integration of Afghanistan into the economies of its neighbors in Central Asia, India and beyond.

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Yet both India and China are beyond that stage.

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Lacking such a patent until now, Indian drug firms, for instance, specialised in making copycat drugs and selling them cheaply to India's huge population and beyond.

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Moreover, the great convergence has spread beyond India and China.

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On the other hand, China and India represent true ascendant economies of the next decade and beyond.

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In contrast, the rising countries of Asia, notably China and India, have begun plans for manned flights to the moon and beyond.

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She is supposed to focus on opportunities in Brazil, Russia, India and China, as well as everywhere else beyond North America.

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The G-20 was set up as an ad hoc response to the financial crises of the 1990s to meet the need to expand necessary international financial and economic cooperation beyond the seven largest economies plus Russia to include developing nations, like China, India and Brazil.

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Their World Investment Report put China in the No. 1 spot for FDI over the next two years and beyond, followed by the U.S., India, Indonesia and Brazil.

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The Ministry of Commerce is planning to assist manufacturers in identifying new markets beyond the U.S. and Europe, particularly India which is going through its own middle class expansion, albeit from a much lower base.

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He ventured far beyond mainstays, selling talcum powder in India, margarine in South Korea and fashion eyewear in Italy.

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For most of India's VIP squatters, a house from the government is a home for life - and sometimes beyond.

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EGShares Beyond BRICs provides broad exposure to the less mature emerging markets outside of Brazil, Russia, India and China.

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