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‘Dorky’ Canada in the groove

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CALGARY, AB, Dec. 2, 2012/ Troy Media/ – Most of us who have lived through the turbulent teen years know what it’s like. You want to be noticed . . . but noticed for the right reasons. You don’t want to be noticed and laughed at for wearing rubber boots to school in Grade 7 (true confessions of this economist!), or for being picked last by the jock captains in high school gym basketball (sigh).

But you do want to be noticed for having the correct Jordache jeans, the highest mark in calculus, and the latest Texas Instrument calculator in its faux denim vinyl case (I did much better on these indicators).

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Reality check: Centre of economic gravity is tilting towards Asia

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VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 29, 2012/ Troy Media/ – The rise of China and other emerging economies is having a profound impact on the international economic and political order established by a handful of Western countries at the close of the Second World War. Collectively, the emerging economies of Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa will soon account for half of world production and consumption. They have also driven most of the growth in the global economy since the mid-2000s.

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