India and China in the Asian Century : Global Economic Power Dynamics
Contents: Preface. Acknowledgements. List of contributors. Introduction. I. Dialects and dynamics of the "Asian Century": 1. The Asian century/Ashish Gupta. 2. A place for India in 'Asian' century/A. Vasudevan. 3. Towards the Indian century: some reflections/Sumit K. Majumdar. 4. World economy: made in China?/Alok Ray. 5. India and China: towards a cooperative partnerships/C.V. Ranganathan. 6. India and China: on a 'global move'/Batuk Gathani. 7. Super economic power dynamics of India and China/P. Jegadish Gandhi. 8. Knowledge and the Asian challenge/C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh. 9. The Asian Giants and Latin America/Jorge Heine. 10. Dimensions of "decent work" in Asia/Juan Somavia. II. China: the "Dragon's" development dimensions: 11. China: towards Marxian democratic model/A. Ranga Reddy. 12. Macro-economic policy in China's economic growth/Jayati Ghosh. 13. In China: a problem of plenty/Pallavi Aiyar. 14. Protecting intellectual property: the Guanxi Way/G. Narasimha Raghavan. 15. Disinvestments: The Chinese example/S. Venkitaramanan. 16. Rising inequality in China/C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh. 17. Winds of change in China's growth strategy/S. Sethuraman. 18. Lessons from China/K. Subramaniam. III. India: the "Tiger's" development strides: 19. India has come of age/Ashok Jacob. 20. India--the land of people's power/Ajai Chowdhry. 21. Need for the agriculture renewal/M.S. Swaminathan. 22. On growth, poverty and opportunity/G. Srinivasan. 23. FDI: will India edge out China?/S. Majumder. 24. China's lessons for India/Dan Steinbock. IV. "The Asian Giants" : global economic power dynamics: 25. India and China through fresh eyes/Qiu Yonhui. 26. A comparative study of growth pattern in India and China : a review/Md. Abdus Salam. 27. The China--India Matrix/Rasheeda Bhagat. 28. Growth sustainability of China and India/Andy Xie. 29. Agricultural development and poverty alleviation in China and India: a comparative analysis/M.S. Kallur. 30. Mobile industry in India and China: a 'Must-Win' market/Dan Steinbock. 31. India-China trade: a long road ahead/Pallavi Aiyar. 32. Can India and China emerge as superpowers?/S. Iyyampillai and P. Balamurugan. 33. India and China : a win-win game/Ashish Gupta. 34. India-China economic ties: develop a different paradigm/Ramgopal Agarwal. 35. China and India : the Asian drivers/R. Seshasayee. Appendices. Index.
"The globalised economic changes is India and China have now become a global talk. The soothsayers all over the world have visualized a new Asian socio-economic order with the constellation of "the Tiger-Dragon" cluster in influencing the course and contours of the human life in the 21 century. The key question is whether India and China will be partners or rivals. If partners, how best to go beyond bilateral issues and ensure international peace, security, and stability. If rivals, how best to resolve areas of conflict and competition and drive the engine of growth through the irreversible cooperative partnership.
This, Vellore Institute of Development Studies' (VIDS) commemorative (1996-2006) compendium, India and China in the Asian Century: Global Economic Power Dynamics, is drawn from well researched commentary papers and documents by 36 prominent journalists, eminent diplomats, academicians, scholars and leading trade and commerce strategists. The contents and coverage span from understanding the present position of modern "Asian Drama" dynamics delineating their inherent problems and new opportunities to carve out a strategic India-China global partnership.
The book is divided into four broad areas of discursive debates: dialects and dynamics of "the Asian Century", China: the "Dragon's" development dimensions, India: the "Tigers" development strides and "The Asian Giants": global economic power dynamics.
Appendices are full of macro socio-economic statistics of India and China in the context of world economy. The salient features of the recently issued joint declaration by the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Chinese President Hu Jintao on November 21, 2006 at New Delhi after a Summit Level Meeting is included as part of preface to understand the emergent testament of mutual trust and cooperation between two countries as global players.
Here is a book that heralds new hope of economic prosperity in a globalised Asia. It will of invaluable referral website to students, researchers, cross-border trade strategists and policy programmers on the Indo-China international affairs." (jacket)
