Analysts Mixed on Emerging Economies Metric

The summary findings of a World Bank study show the economies of India and China have grown more than previously thought, leading some analysts to predict that China could surpass the United States as the world's biggest economy by the end of the year — sooner than many experts had predicted. Conducted every six years by the World Bank’s International Comparison Program (ICP) under authority of the United Nations Statistical Commission, the results show that, based on 2011 prices, the...

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