The Development Policy and Practice (DPP) team at the Open University is in engaged in a research programme exploring the impact of China and India on the developing world. It forms part of a global Asian Drivers research programme which shares a common framework and approach to assessing the nature and extent of the impacts of the Asian Drivers on low income economies.
The programme seeks to provide answers to six major sets of policy- and poverty-related challenges posed to low-income economies by the rise of the Asian Drivers:
- What are the consequences for their economic growth?
- Who are likely to be the losers and winners from the growing dynamism of the Asian Drivers?
- What is the likely impact of the dynamism of the Asian Drivers on the environment?
- Given these growth, distributional and environmental impacts, what are the implications for development strategies in developing economies?
- How should developing countries engage with the global economy?
- Given their rapid growth and size, what are the implications of this shift in global power for institutions of local, national, regional and global governance, in the public, private and non-governmental sectors?