The rise of China and India

Abstract

Over the past decade or more, a great deal of attention has been focused on the rise of China and India, especially the economic and security dimensions of their emergence as significant players on the world stage. One of the motivations behind this growing interest in the two Asian countries is a desire to understand the impact that their dynamic economic growth is having on the international political economy. Some in the developed world worry that the rapid economic growth in the world’s two most populous nations, and their voracious appetite for natural resources, will push the global prices of essential commodities higher and add to the cost of living pressures for consumers in other pa..