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The booming world

Europe is broke, America on its knees and even India and China aren't doing as well as they were. But across swaths of the developing world, the refrain is "crisis, what crisis?" Powered by demand for their raw materials - and in some cases by their own nascent middle classes, a new breed of nation once dismissed as basket cases is demonstrating that it's not all gloom and doom out there
  • Economist Ha Joon

    Ha-Joon Chang: growth in developing world shouldn't overexcite people – video

    Many developing countries are growing faster than rich nations, but is this growth sustainable?

  • Australia mining

    Australia reaps benefits of Asian mining bonanza – but not everyone's a winner

  • Toromocho

    Chinese mining firm to raze Peruvian peak for 35 years of mineral wealth

  • Pria Warrick gives tips to students during a class on confidence building in Delhi.

    Need to be the perfect lady? India's motivation experts have just the course

    Self-improvement businesses enjoy boom despite national slowdown, as newly rich try to bridge cultural divide
  • Julian and Rebekah Opuni

    Ghana expatriates return home to seize opportunities from booming economy

    Banker Julian Opuni and his fashion designer wife, Rebekah, are among a growing number of Ghanaians returning to their homeland to work and build a better life

    • Bolivia's protest centre becomes its boomtown

    • From Thailand to Ukraine: a country's in vogue when it has its own Vogue

    • Talk point: is the world booming where you live?

  • Mexico-middle-class

    Tijuana leads the way as Mexico heads for the big league

  • Yogyakarta-brotherhood-indonesia

    Motorbike sellers roar into town as Indonesians earn money to burn

  • Turkey muslim fashion

    Turkey's middle-class women mix fashion with Islamic piety

  • Nepal farmer

    Nepalese farmers tap into global thirst for coffee

  • New-wave economies going for growth

  • Lessons from the Brics, part I: can Brazil and China keep growing?

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