Dance of The Elephant, Walk of the Dragon 
How India and China are reshaping the world in different ways

Welcome to The Dance of the Elephant and the Walk of the Dragon, the website for the soon-to-be-released book. 

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"Is India's economic growth model better than China's?

India and China are global economic powers, but with different growth trajectories and completely different styles of governance. While the comparison between the Asian neigbours is inevitable, how does the future of these two large economies stack up?

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As ancient Oriental civilizations having river valley origins and global economic giants of the medieval period, India and China share many characteristics. There is, however, much that is different, which will define the future of the two nations. This book examines the policies, institutions, markets, infrastructure, public finance, and politial economies of the two countries and their enabling environment of economic growth. It also examines potential or little understood dangers of disproportionate growth in the context of the environment, population, and future economic and social stability. These alone, however, are not sufficient to tell the complete story, or suggest a tea leaves reading of their possible futures.

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The book therefore also takes a summary look at history, culture, beliefs, society, law, some aspects of ethnography and anthropology, their respect constructs as modern nation-states, and the role these may have played in the past and may play in the future, to better understand the future trajectory of India and China."

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