The OFBNP Center at the U.S. Agency for InternationalDevelopment hosted a forum with 33 members of the Indian American community, directly responsive to Inter-Religious Recommendations 9 and 10.
Danny Quah, professor of economics and internationaldevelopment at the London School of Economics, has calculated that the world's economic center of gravity measured by looking at income averages across more than 700 places worldwide has shifted east over the past 30 years, from the Transatlantic Axis to somewhere across the Arabian Peninsula.
"If we look at 1997 in a wider perspective and focus more on Hong Kong's status as an international hub, it is easy to conclude that this city will become the center of China's future development, " said Chen.