Asia's growth is the story of our times

Future historians will highlight the rapid rise in emerging countries' living standards, not the global financial crisis, argues Lawrence Summers.

When we are all dead, historians will look back on the previous two decades and identify a key process that will distinguish it from all other periods, according to Lawrence Summers, an economic adviser to President Obama. Perhaps surprisingly, it won’t be the end of the cold war, nor the conflict between the modern, industrial world and parts of newly assertive Islamic communities.

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