Asian Drivers

Research Community

The research community needs to respond in a number of ways to the enormous challenge posed by the rise of China and India. This requires:

• New theoretical paradigms to explain the rise of the Asian Driver economies and their impact on global systems
  
  
• Unravelling complementary and competitive, and direct and indirect impacts
  
  
• Undertaking primary research and to integrating this with meso- and macro analyses
  
  
• Working in interdisciplinary frameworks.

Because of the complexity of this agenda, it is necessary to:

• Work with policy-makers to ensure the timely application of research results
  
  
• Work collaboratively in networks, both within and across national borders
  
  
• Ensure that analyses of global trends are disseminated to national-level researchers
  
  
• Help in the building of research capabilities where competences are uneven.