1. Clearly, the (to strengthen) of the US economy would enhance American economic power – a scenario that runs counter to the current fashion of portraying the US as being in decline.
2. Even more striking, while 91% of the Chinese population is literate and 43% is urban, the numbers for India are only 61% and 29%, (to respect).
3. Indeed, as the Chinese ambassador to the UK pointed out on my radio program, China is already the largest importer – yes, importer – for at least 70 countries, and accounts for about 10-11% of all imports (globe).
4. India and the Philippines, for example, have established themselves as world leaders in the export of (outsourcing)business processes.
5. India has (to multiply) its per capita income levels many times over since 1950, and has done so far faster in recent years than Britain or the United States did during and after the industrial revolution.
6. India, long known for gross disparities between rich and poor, has a Gini coefficient that has (to hover) around 0.30 to 0.32 over the past five decades.
7. Moscow will work more closely with other countries hostile to America, most importantly China, creating a coalition capable of (to hinder)if not blocking U.S. initiatives.
8. The new data are based on improved estimates of (to purchase) power parity (PPP).
9. There’s a shift from non- (trade) sectors to tradables, especially those oriented toward exports.”
10. Wherever demographic growth (to outstrip)economic growth, the fault lies primarily with corrupt and inefficient regimes and the obstacles they put in the way of entrepreneurship and wealth creation.
