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India’s problems have dampened hopes that it, along with China and other non-Western economies, might help revive global growth.

At least 30 people, many of them women and children, are feared dead after a foot bridge spanning a river in north-eastern India collapses.

As his global teleconference broke up in disarray on September 11, 2001, a top economist at a U.S. investment bank began to ponder what the attacks on the United States might tell him about the future shape of the world.

Measuring the country’s economic development against that of China seems to be a national obsession in India, but the rivalry seems to be largely one-sided.