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![]() Free Download The Century of the Emerging World : Development with a Vengeance By Paul Dobrescu 2017 | 229 Pages | ISBN: 1443893617 | PDF | 1 MB This book explores how the first decade of the 21st century was nothing short of "les années folles". The impressive growth rate of emerging economies changed the crisis-ridden world in a very short time, and in the early 2000s the emerging world's weight in the global economy was 38%, now 50%. This statistic confirms the political reality of the century of the emerging world. 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