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In the 2013 Human Development Report, the United Nations predicts that over the next two decades, economic and political power will shift away from Europe and North America.

The report projects that by 2020 the combined gross domestic products of Brazil, China and India will exceed the entire output of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Great Britain and the U.S. put together.

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