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Toward a Modern Silk Road: How a Shifting Global Economy is IntensifyingEconomic Links Between the Middle East and Asia

  • October 10, 2010

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  • 1:02:53

The past few years have witnessed a renewal of economic ties between the Middle East and Asia, two regions linked by the historic Silk Route.

  • Mahmoud Mohieldin, Managing Director of the World Bank and former Minister of Investment of Egypt
  • Nasser Saidi, Chief Economist Dubai International Financial Center
  • V. Shankar, Standard Chartered Bank Group Chief Executive Officer - Middle East Africa Europe and Americas
  • Ben Simpfendorfer, Chief China Economist Royal Bank of Scotland
  • Masood Ahmed, Director Middle East and Central Asia Department IMF