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Asia  

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  • Asian countries have recently become major players in the world economy with the emergence of Japan in the 1960s, India in the 1970s, and China in the late 1980s. Asia covers some 29.4 percent of the world's land mass, and since the 1980s its 4 billion people have made up about 60 percent of the world's population. [Source: Encyclopedia of Business in Today's World; Asia]

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