Goldman, Sachs issued a study here predicting that China's economy would overtake that of Germany within a decade, and surpass the American economy by 2041.

With foreign investment, Ramzi asserted, its economy could overtake that of the tiny but sparkling Gulf emirate of Qatar within three years.

For example, City Journal claims that in 1953, Galtung predicted that the Soviet Union's economy would soon overtake the West.

For example, the rapidly growing Chinese economy has recently overtaken America as the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide.

February 14 - It is announced that the economy of the People's Republic of China overtook the Japanese economy as the world's second largest.

For the first half of the Cold War, most economists were asking when, not if, the Soviet economy would overtake the U.S. economy.

Many estimates suggest that China's economy could overtake the United States' within 40 years.

A report based on International Monetary Fund data published earlier this year also said the Brazilian economy would overtake the UK in 2011.

It is as if the 200mph financial economy overtook the 100mph real economy, but, with its slipstream, helped the slowcoach to accelerate.

A recent study suggested that by 2040 the Chinese economy will overtake that of the U.S.