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Article: Introducing INDOPAC to the world: the focus of the regional business community has already turned towards the important and vital Indo-Pacific region, and an India-Asia Business Forum has been established to tackle the issues.(NEW REGION GROUPING)(Cover story)
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- Business Asia
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
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In the 21st century, businesses operating in the giant economies of India, China and in the surrounding region will be asked to create prosperity for their citizens at a speed and on a scale unprecedented in history.
Business cannot achieve this goal using the old structures and technologies that supported economic growth in the 19th and 20th centuries. Nor will it have the benefit of the abundant resources and careless attitudes to the environment that supported earlier periods of development.
Fundamental new business ideas are needed to realise the aspirations of the region's people in this new world.
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