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Chandran Nair, founder of the Global Institute for Tomorrow, and Raghuram Rajan, Economic Advisor to Indian PM

Stephen Sackur talks to Chandran Nair, founder of the Global Institute for Tomorrow, and Raghuram Rajan, former IMF economist, now an economic adviser to the Indian prime minister.

Growth is good - that's a basic economic assumption shared the world over, but is it always true? Is it possible, or desirable, for the new giants of the world economy, China and India, to grow their economies until they've reached American levels of consumption? Stephen Sackur is joined by Chandran Nair, founder of the Global Institute for Tomorrow, and Raghuram Rajan, former IMF economist, and now an economic adviser to the Indian prime minister. Will free market capitalism make or break Asia?

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