The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China, and What it Means for All of Us

Robyn Meredith, a veteran journalist and senior editor in Asia for Forbes magazine, will talk about an era of labor unbound by geographic borders and its global impact.

A tidal wave of change is headed for American shores as we enter an era of labor unbound by geographic borders. Although ominous for the West, the transformation has already lifted hundreds of millions of Indians and Chinese from poverty.

Robyn Meredith, a veteran journalist and senior editor in Asia for Forbes magazine, will talk about this transformation and its global impact.

Using themes from her new book, The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China, and What it Means for All of Us, Meredith will offer her observations, including:

• How India's growing number of graduates are becoming more capable of conquering the back-office work of the world, writing legal briefs, programming computers, figuring tax returns and more – all at a fraction of Western wages.

• Why the economies of China and the United States are increasingly connected, thanks to China's huge holdings of U.S. dollars and American consumers' love of lower-cost goods.

Meredith, now based in Hong Kong, joined Forbes as its Detroit bureau manager in 2000 to write about the auto industry. One of her articles was included in the 2002 edition of the book The Best Business Stories of the Year. Previously, she was a Detroit correspondent for The New York Times, where she covered the auto industry and other Midwestern news; a business reporter for USA Today; and a reporter in the Washington bureau of the American Banker newspaper.
 
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