"Over the next 10 to 20 years, a big phenomenon in the world will be Chinese and Indian companies, once they have scale in their own markets, expanding oversees, " he said.

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To succeed in expanding abroad, banks need scale and a local deposit and customer base.

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Today high technology is expanding opportunity and productivity on a scale exceeding that of the 1920s.

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Expanding industrial development and large-scale shipping are also generating new risks.

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Companies stand to gain much more by expanding such investments to include community-scale sustainable energy innovations like Tapergie.

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After expanding the domestic market he spearheaded a global scale-up in the mid-2000s, making a series of acquisitions.

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China Unicom will gain in scale as well by merging with China Netcom, long a bit player in the expanding Chinese mobile industry.

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Another option is to scale back his ambitions, going for the less grand but still worthy goal of expanding health cover to the many tens of millions without it.

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He then began expanding a business that bought concert venues and music-promotion companies, betting that greater scale would give him more clout in booking pop and rock musicians.

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