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...retirement age are all proposals likely to draw fire from various groups, the authors said. But despite their controversial nature, they are all much-needed reforms, stressed the authors. “We believe it is time for the President to call Congressional leaders together for a social security summit,” Liebman said. “We believe our plan serves as a useful model for one that might emerge...
...pointed to February’s U.S.-India summit as a sign of the region’s increasing importance...
...summit may not live up to its hype; few such gatherings do. But it is not unreasonable to see the meeting in Kuala Lumpur as a punctuation mark in the 60-year-long progress of Asia. The leaders of the 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations will meet together with those of Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, New Zealand - and China. The U.S will not be present. Some of the more breathless commentary on the summit sees parallels to the meeting of European leaders in Messina in 1955, which laid the foundations for what has become...
Officials and business leaders meeting in New Delhi could not have asked for more auspicious news as they gathered last week for the World Economic Forum's annual India Economic Summit. While the three-day event was in progress, the Bombay Stock Exchange's Sensex index hit all-time highs. That milestone was followed by the cheering news that the Indian economy grew at an 8% rate during the quarter ending Sept. 30, underscoring once-moribund India's claim to being the fastest-growing free-market democracy in the world...
...Indian politicians at the summit expressed confidence that the country will eventually catch up?not because the government will necessarily get its act together, but because of a long-term trend known as India's "demographic dividend." With 1.3 billion citizens, China is the world's most populous country; India is second with a population of 1.1 billion. But because of Beijing's long-standing one-child policy, China's working-age population will begin to decline in the next 10 years. Meanwhile, India's youthfulness?350 million of its citizens are under age 15?ensures its workforce will expand...