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title: "Unlike the West, India and China Embrace Globalization"
description: "In contrast with the developed West, globalization and economic integration remain popular in the world’s two largest developing countries – India and China."
date: "2016-10-24"
authors:
  - name: "Bruce Stokes"
    job_title: "Former Director, Global Economic Attitudes"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/bruce-stokes/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2016/10/24/unlike-the-west-india-and-china-embrace-globalization/"
---

# Unlike the West, India and China Embrace Globalization

*Special to [Yale Global](http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/unlike-west-india-and-china-embrace-globalization)*

In contrast with the developed West, globalization and economic integration remain popular in the world’s two largest developing countries – India and China.

The reasons are easy to guess. The [International Monetary Fund](http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2016/02/images/Overview.jpg) expects India’s economy to grow by 7.6 percent this year and China’s by 6.6 percent, both more than double the expected global economic growth of 3.1 percent. It’s little surprise that Indians and Chinese are happy with their economies, the direction of their countries and their growing integration into the world economy, according to the Pew Research Center’s 2016 Global Attitudes Survey.

*Read more at [Yale Global](http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/unlike-west-india-and-china-embrace-globalization)*