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Power of Asia: democracy or prosperity?

What is the most favourable model for socio-economic development, Chinese, Singaporean, Indonesian, Indian? A panel of guests from Asia talk about their vision for the region and where it's heading.

As part of the Power of Asia season across the 91热爆's international news services - 91热爆 World Service staged a panel discussion at the London Stock Exchange Theatre on Wednesday 29 June 2011.

The panel covered the reasons behind the rise of regional economies and asked whether democracy was necessary for economic development.

The agenda for the discussion was put together by some of the 91热爆's multilingual services including, 91热爆 Burmese, 91热爆 Chinese, 91热爆 Hindi, 91热爆 Indonesia and 91热爆 Vietnamese.

The debate was chaired by Britt Yip of 91热爆 Chinese and Hoang Nguyen of 91热爆 Vietnamese.

The panel included:

Professor Athar Hussain, Director of the Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Professor Shaojia Liu, Economics and Finance, Brunel University

Dr Intan Syah Ichsan, University of Exeter

Martina Nguyen, Historian of Southeast Asia, University of California, Berkeley

Van Biak Thang, Assistant Editor of internet-based news agency, Chinland Guardian

You can listen to a shorter version of the debate or watch the debate in full via the four clips below.

28 minutes

Last on

Thu 30 Jun 2011 19:32GMT

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  • Thu 30 Jun 2011 19:32GMT