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About Us
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The ICA Institute
is a non-profit research institute working to
foster research and dissemination of
knowledge on the rise of China and India and
their impact on global markets, global
resources and geopolitics of the world. The
ICA Institute's mission is to generate new
perspectives on the role of market and
resource driven economic development. ICA
Institute fosters interaction and dialogue
between academic scholars, industry leaders
and policy makers on the impact of emerging
economies in general and China and India in
particular. Specifically, The ICA Institute is
positioned to be a catalyst between faculty
and students in International Business and
industry leaders and managers.
www.icainstitute.org
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contexts in emerging markets are different from developed country contexts. These contextual differences necessitate the development and deployment of unique capabilities and strategies on the parts of companies operating there. While all emerging market countries are not uniform across all of the characteristics described below, there is a great deal of commonality on these conditions within the group of emerging market countries, by virtue of their similar stages of development. Thus, companies that develop their skill sets and products/services in one emerging market are likely to more easily be able to extend them to others. Conversely, there are great differences in these characteristics in the developed group of countries.  
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Headlines
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China's economy to overtake the US?
(Manilla Bulletin | Nov 27)
A LITTLE over three decades ago, Chairman Deng Xiao Ping led the People's Republic of China to embrace the policy of clustering industrial centers in South China to create economies of scale and enhance efficiency in production/distribution of goods. Today, the wisdom of that visionary decision is borne out by the mega-economic dynamos of the cities of the Pearl River Delta, notably: Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Zhuhai-Dongguan.
China plans S-E Asia rail links
(The Hindu | Nov 23)
China will, in coming months, accelerate plans for high-speed rail links with Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand and Laos, as part of a wider effort to deepen engagement with its Southeast Asian neighbours, officials said this week.
China launches a new lunar orbiter
(Beijing Review | Nov 23)
China's second unmanned lunar probe, Chang'e 2, successfully completed its third and final braking on October 9, allowing the satellite to enter a 100 km-high lunar orbit, according to the Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC). The maneuver is significant not only because compared with its predecessor Chang'e 1, it is more challenging for Chang'e 2 to brake, as it must do so at a closer distance to the Moon and at a higher speed, but also because the success meant that the spacecraft would be able to begin scientific exploration activities soon.
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Policy | Politics
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Leveraging China & India for Global Competitiveness
(GLG Group | Nov 13)
Multi-National Coporations are gaining competitive advantage by leveraging core strengths across both geographies and partners. From a geographic standpoint, this could be termed "horizontal capability building" where capabilities resident in China or India are leveraged in the other respective market and beyond. Across the China-India geography, there is a full value chain of low-cost capabilities with the opportunity to achieve scale within those two markets.
Obama--Manmohan Singh duet---As seen from Beijing
(Sri Lanka Guardian | Nov 13)
It is absurd to say Obama's whirlwind tour to India is a proof that the U.S. strategic focus has been shifted from Beijing to Delhi." So wrote Li Hongmei, the columnist of the party-controlled "People's Daily Online" of China, in a half-serious, half-sarcastic article on the recent visit of President Barack Obama to India. The article, titled "Obama greets India with more than a lip service? ", was carried by the "People's Daily Online" on November 9,2010.
U.S.-Pakistan Ties Overshadow Obama's Trip To India
(NPR | Nov 5)
Many Indians feel that the United States has neglected India, while cultivating strategic relations with its military rival, Pakistan. That perception will be tough to overcome as Obama seeks India's help on a range of issues, from helping to balance the growing power of China to supporting the government of Afghanistan.
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Technology
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Courting India In Space
(Space Travel | Nov 26)
It's a busy time for watching international relations in space. Then again, given the current state of international relations on Earth, it's not surprising that spaceflight looks so dynamic. We have had a short and controversial visit by the Administrator of NASA to China, and recently, new overtures of co-operation between the USA and India on several strategic and economic fronts. Spaceflight has been prominent among these.
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Transportation
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India, China and Electric Cars
(The Independent | Nov 26)
...the double-edged impact of Indian and Chinese growth on traditional car-making nations. On the one hand, strong demand from India, China and other emerging nations has been the saviour of established manufacturers at a time when orders from Europe and North America have dried up - but on the other hand, these nations are emerging as strong future competitors as well....
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Environment
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Lower carbon emissions linked to recession
(USA Today | Nov 23)
Carbon dioxide, widely considered the chief cause of global warming, decreased from 2008 to 2009, largely because of the global economic slowdown, says a study released Sunday. Global carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels dropped slightly in 2009 because of the weak economy, says a new study. "There is a close link between the world's gross domestic product and emissions of carbon dioxide,"" says study lead author Pierre Friedlingstein of the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom...
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Education
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China Passes India as Top Country Sending Students to US
(Voice of America | Nov 17)
...more than six hundred ninety thousand attended American colleges and universities during the last academic year. That number was a record high. It was an increase of three percent from the year before. But it was mainly the result of heavy growth from one country, China. China passed India as the top country sending students to the United States.
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Opinions
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America and China must avoid making past mistakes again
(The Independent | Nov 23)
"...a strong expansion in the emerging market economies will ultimately depend on a recovery in the more advanced economies..." Does this still hold true? Not obviously. Two important themes have begun to emerge in recent years. First, strong emerging-market growth is beginning to undermine growth in the developed world. China's hunger for raw materials - now increasingly being mimicked in other parts of the emerging world - has left commodity prices high despite the depths of the recession in the West. In the "bad" old days, this would have left the West facing significantly higher inflation but, today, the risk lies more with lower output. Even in the UK, where inflation is too high relative to target, there has been no wage response. Adjusted for inflation, wage growth has been pitifully weak, hindering the pace of both debt repayment and the economic recovery.
Why the U.S. (can) not get China's high speed rail
(People's Daily Online | Nov 24)
As Infrastructurist.com recently highlighted, China just completed building the final leg of an 800 mile high-speed rail (HSR) line between Beijing and Shanghai. This line puts China on top as the nation with the most miles of HSR track. It's understood that a communist country would have some advantages in building out such huge projects; namely fewer personal property rights and protections. That said, the incredible five year run in China's rail system is beginning to make US' bloated and slow system even more, well, bloated and slow. If US want to add jobs in this country and improve ailing infrastructure, bureaucrats may need to take a lesson from those in Beijing and get our collective act together. Fast.
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