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China and India, 2025 : a comparative assessment / Charles Wolf, Jr. ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic development--China--Forecasting.
- Economic development.
- Economic development--India--Forecasting.
- Technological innovations--China.
- Technological innovations.
- Technological innovations--India.
- China--Population.
- China.
- India--Population.
- India.
- China--Armed Forces--Appropriations and expenditures.
- India--Armed Forces--Appropriations and expenditures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (171 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- China and India, the world's two most populous countries, will exercise increasing influence in international affairs in the coming decades. This document assesses the relative prospects of China and India through 2025 in four domains: demography, macroeconomics, science and technology, and defense spending and procurement. In each domain, the authors try to answer the following questions: Who is ahead? By how much? and Why?
- Contents:
- Objectives, background, context
- Population trends in China and India:
- Demographic dividend or demographic drag?
- China-India: a macroeconomic assessment
- Science and technology
- Chinese & Indian defense and defense procurement spending to 2025
- Conclusions and implications
- Appendix A: Meta-analysis of economic growth in Dhina and India
- Appendix B: Detailed calculations for and additional figures showing the projections in Chapter Four
- Appendix C: Analytic tables.
- Notes:
- "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Approved for public release; distribution unlimited."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0-8330-5886-X
- OCLC:
- 756484515
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