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Can India Overtake China?

By: Yasheng Huang and Tarun Khanna
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Abstract

What's the fastest route to economic development? Welcome foreign direct investment (FDI), says China, and most policy experts agree. But a comparison with long-time laggard India suggests that FDI is not the only path to prosperity. Indeed, India's homegrown entrepreneurs may give it a long-term advantage over a China hamstrung by inefficient banks and capital markets.

Keywords

Development Economics; Foreign Direct Investment; China; India

Citation

Huang, Yasheng, and Tarun Khanna. "Can India Overtake China?" Foreign Policy, no. 137 (July–August 2003): 74–81.
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