This has serious implications for the rest of Asia.

SEOUL Rapid economic growth in China undoubtedly benefits the rest of Asia.

Moreover, the rest of Asia resented the Japanese for reveling in this difference.

Japan and the rest of Asia should prepare for that day as well.

And, as goes China, so will go the rest of an increasingly integrated Asia.

Second, there is now evidence of weakening performance in China and the rest of Asia.

China s economic footprint, moreover, is spreading rapidly across Asia and the rest of the world.

In modern history, Japan has had the distinction of consistently staying ahead of the rest of Asia.

Many Americans remain shockingly unaware of how much the rest of the world, especially Asia, has progressed.

China s long term growth potential and that of the rest of developing Asia is not pre defined.

Several missions have taken place in various regions (Africa, Asia, Americas, Central Asia, Middle East and Europe) and more are scheduled for the rest of 2005.

This shift will have profound implications for China, the rest of Asia, and the broader global economy.

In ten years or so, however, Japan could lose its status vis à vis the rest of Asia.

Indeed, South Asia, with deeper regional disparities than the rest of the world, is really two South Asia s.

Having outperformed the rest of Asia for more than a century, the Japanese have decided to slow down.

The ripple effect from Europe s stalling economy has thus spread rapidly to the rest of Asia and beyond.

So there is real hope that Iran can change, modernize, and open up as the rest of Asia has.

If the world s center of gravity shifts to Asia, however, Americans will be woefully unprepared. Many Americans remain shockingly unaware of how much the rest of the world, especially Asia, has progressed.

It follows the nationalist narrative Japan, a victim of the European colonial powers, sought only to protect the rest of Asia from them.

Today, the hopes of the world economy rest with the emerging powers in east and south Asia, led by China and India.

Moreover, investment rates in the newly industrialized economies of Asia have never recovered to their pre 1997 8 crisis levels, and investment rates in the rest of Asia outside China have fallen off as well.

By the beginning of 1920, Central Asia was firmly in the hands of Russia and, despite some early resistance to the Bolsheviks, Uzbekistan and the rest of the Central Asia became a part of the Soviet Union.

I firmly believe that, in 2013 and beyond, the Asia Pacific region s future prosperity should rest on them as well.

This extreme free market ideology, also called structural adjustment, went against the practical lessons of development successes in China and the rest of Asia.

But we can nonetheless begin to assess its potential spillover effects on the rest of Asia and other major economies around the world.

This is bad news for export growth in the rest of Asia and among commodity rich countries, which increasingly rely on Chinese imports.

The US and the rest of Asia must not merely adjust to China they must seek to shape a China that plays by the rules.

Concerning the rest of Asia, steel consumption in India increased by 42 per cent from 1996 to 2004, while consumption in other developing countries of the region was stagnant.

Climate Cambodia's climate, like that of the rest of Southeast Asia, is dominated by monsoons, which are known as tropical wet and dry because of the distinctly marked seasonal differences.

These developments put to rest the notion of decoupling, the idea that economic growth in emerging markets, whether in Asia or elsewhere, is independent from that of the developed world.

All of that growth will be in the developing world 1.3 billion more people in Asia, 900 million more in Africa, the rest in Latin America and other regions.

Yet neither policy nor technological innovations in Asia will solve the world s climate change problem. Only a major global bargain between the West and the rest will suffice.

The rest of Asia might be content to sit back and watch the spectacle of Japan s myopic politics if Japan s inability to work to help stabilize the region did not matter so much.

If those savings stay in the region, they can provide a financial resource for further development, which will be beneficial not only to Asia but also to the rest of the world.

The way in which the international community dealt with that issue would have enduring and far reaching implications for the security of the Korean peninsula, North East Asia and the rest of the world.

This is quite a turnabout for an economy that for years had crept along at what was derisively called the Hindu rate of growth around 3 while much of the rest of Asia shot ahead.

Throughout China s three decade rise from poverty to economic juggernaut, trade within East Asia has grown even faster than the region s trade with the rest of the world, suggesting deeper specialization and integration.

NEW YORK As Asia emerges from the global economic crisis faster than the rest of the world, it is increasingly clear that the world s center of gravity is shifting from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Europe is export led China s largest source of external demand as China goes, so goes the rest of China centric Asia and, from there, the ripples reach the shores of an increasingly export dependent US economy.

Rest of the World

Immigration Since the overthrow of the regime of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraqi Kurdistan has witnessed massive immigration from the rest of Iraq (particularly from Kurds, Assyrians, Armenians, Mandeans, Shabaks and Roma), as well as from South Asia.

Asia is home to the largest Muslim population, with the Middle East (West Southwest Asia), Central Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia being particularly important regions.

The Commission used this methodology in different landlocked subregions in Asia, including South Asia, North east Asia and Central Asia.

While the largest number of Muslims live in Asia, they are influenced by the heart of this struggle in the Middle East, an area that has lagged behind the rest of the world in globalization, openness, institutions, and democratization.

rest and recreation of children up to fifteen years old in a children's rest home,