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In 2007, I decided that we needed to reconceptualize how we thought about economic development.
But the bigger issue is that global gridlock is going to stifle economic growth and our ability to deliver food and health care, particularly to people that live in city centers.
Mayor Bloomberg came in office, he was very supportive, but we still had to make the economic case.
So we commissioned an economic feasibility study to try to make the case.
And the main case was, this is going to make good economic sense for the city.
The other thing, it's generated, obviously, a lot of economic value; it's also inspired, I think, a lot of great architecture.
And it's economic empowerment and the ability for a woman to say, "I am as much contributing to this family, or more, than you are."
So the other face of Yemen is actually one that lies behind the veil, and it's economic empowerment mostly that allows the woman to just uncover it.
I'd like to talk about some of the things I've seen on the front lines of hunger, some of the things I've learned in bringing my economic and trade knowledge and my experience in the private sector.
Now if we look at the economic imperative here, this isn't just about compassion.
My topic is economic growth in China and India.
And the question I want to explore with you is whether or not democracy has helped or has hindered economic growth.
I'm going to use these two countries to make an economic argument for democracy, rather than against democracy.
In the last five years, the two countries have begun to converge somewhat in economic growth.
So let me call it the Shanghai model of economic growth, that emphasizes the following features for promoting economic development: infrastructures, airports, highways, bridges, things like that.
The implication of that model is that democracy is a hindrance for economic growth, rather than a facilitator of economic growth.
Just how important are infrastructures for economic growth?
If you believe that infrastructures are very important for economic growth, then you would argue a strong government is necessary to promote growth.
They must have done better, in terms of economic growth.
Telephones, infrastructures do not guarantee you economic growth.
If you know nothing about China and the Soviet Union other than the fact about their telephones, you would have made a poor prediction about their economic growth in the next two decades.
In fact, if you look at the evidence worldwide, the evidence is more supportive of the view that the infrastructure are actually the result of economic growth.
And this is clearly the story of the Chinese economic growth.
Is democracy bad for economic growth?
By that comparison, democracy looks very, very good in terms of economic growth.
In East Asia, we have had successful economic growth stories such as Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore.
If you look at the statistical evidence worldwide, there's really no support for the idea that authoritarian governments hold a systematic edge over democracies in terms of economic growth.
It must mean that the country had something so advantageous to itself in terms of economic growth to overcome the negative effects of the Cultural Revolution.
Isn't it true that the one-party political system has facilitated economic growth in China?
A little-known fact about India in the 1990s is that the country not only has undertaken economic reforms, the country has also undertaken political reforms by introducing village self-rule, privatization of media and introducing freedom of information acts.
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