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  • The Big Three: Can China, India and the United States All Be Middle Class?

    If this is indeed the “Asian Century,” as some have predicted, what will that mean for America, which currently holds the position of the world’s only superpower? And what are the implications of the expanding middle class in China, India and the United States on politics, the economy, trade and the environment?

The Big Three: Can China, India and the United States All Be Middle Class? Part 1

Shashi Tharoor, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information and author, most recently of the forthcoming Bookless in Baghdad: And Other Writings about Reading (Arcade Publishing July 2005
- on the growth of the middle class in India, China and the United States » United Nations

and
Vishakha N. Desai, President of the Asia Society
- on the growth of the middle class in India, China and the United States
» Asia Society

and
Philip P. Pan, Beijing Bureau Chief at the Washington Post and winner of the Bob Considine Award from the Overseas Press Club and the Asia Society's Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Asian Journalism
-on the growth of the middle class in China
» Washington Post

and
Sherle R. Schwenninger, Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute at the New School University and the Director of the Global Economic Policy Program at the New America Foundation and author with Walter Mead of, A Financial Architecture for Middle Class Oriented Development(Council on Foreign Relations Publication 2000)
- discusses America's role in middle class growth
» World Policy Institute

The Big Three: Can China, India and the United States All Be Middle Class? Part 2

Shashi Tharoor, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information and author, most recently of the forthcoming Bookless in Baghdad: And Other Writings about Reading (Arcade Publishing July 2005

» United Nations
and
Vishakha N. Desai, President of the Asia Society
» Asia Society
and
Philip P. Pan, Beijing Bureau Chief at the Washington Post and winner of the Bob Considine Award from the Overseas Press Club and the Asia Society's Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Asian Journalism
» Washington Post
and
Sherle R. Schwenninger, Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute at the New School University and the Director of the Global Economic Policy Program at the New America Foundation and author with Walter Mead of, A Financial Architecture for Middle Class Oriented Development (Council on Foreign Relations Publication 2000)
» World Policy Institute
on the effects of the middle class in India, China and the United States on trade and the environment

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