Politics Of A Slowing China: Project Syndicate
The recent financial turmoil in China, with interbank loan rates spiking to double digits within days, provides further confirmation that the world’s second-largest economy is headed for a hard...
View ArticleWhy Emerging Markets are the Future for U.S. Businesses
Apart from some huge outliers, such as Yum! Brands and Coca-Cola, U.S. business have fallen far behind their competitors in other nations when it comes to tapping into developing markets. Here is how...
View ArticleWhy The West Has A Problem With The Emerging World…
Our imperialist mindset — a hangover from the 20thcentury — suggests that developing countries are always helpless without the West. That says more about our limited analytical abilities than about how...
View ArticleThe India-Japan Complimentarity
In many respects, a strategic and economic partnership with India could catalyze Japan’s renewal as a 21st century great power – one no longer as dependent on the United States, and one better...
View ArticleGlobalization Reversing?
Is globalization running out of steam? A new study shows that cross-border investment and trade flows declined worldwide in 2012, ending a two-year recovery after the global financial crisis. Read Here...
View ArticleWorld On Track For Growth
The world economy is primed for its fastest expansion in four years, with the U.S. propelling the improvement in output. Read Here – BloombergFiled under: Global Economy Tagged: Asia, China, developed...
View ArticleIs Iraq The New Investment Magnet?
For Grant Felgenhauer, a money manager whose hedge fund owns $110 million of Iraqi equities, the 15 explosions that rocked the country on a single day in mid-January weren’t a reason to stop buying....
View ArticleA New Bank, BRIC By BRIC; India To Preside
Leaders of the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — all emerging market nations — launch a $100 billion development bank and a currency reserve pool in their first concrete step toward...
View ArticleGlobal Economic Outlook In 2015 – Not Very Different From This Year
Businessweek takes a look at what to expect next year BusinessweekFiled under: Global Economy Tagged: Africa, Barack Obama, China, economic growth, economic slowdown, Economy, Emerging markets, Energy,...
View ArticleWorld Bank Says Concern Growing Over Emerging Markets
A perfect storm is brewing this summer for emerging markets, and it could hit hard in September. Read Here – CNN MoneyFiled under: Global Economy Tagged: Asia, Brazil, China, currencies dollar, debt,...
View ArticleChina May Tip World Into Recession
Forget about all the shoes, toys and other exports. China may soon have another thing to offer the world: a recession. That is the prediction from Ruchir Sharma, head of emerging markets at Morgan...
View ArticleWill the World Ever Boom Again?
The problem is that China’s recent slowdown from 10 percent annual growth to about 7 percent is only the beginning. The recent drops in housing and stock prices are harbingers of a further economic...
View Article“God Gave You Everything. And Then, He Also Gave You Delhi To Mess It All Up”
Commodities trading guru and hedge fund manager Jim Rogers has sold his holdings in Indian companies and exited India because, he says, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has failed to...
View ArticleNarendra Modi Is Too Old For Modern-Day India
Some believe, or fear, that Modi is so powerful that he is a shoo-in for a second term in 2019. But a year in office has made it apparent that Modi’s mind is too old for the composite mind of India. In...
View ArticleThe Transitions Of 2016
One reason that the global economy is so sluggish is that, seven years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, financial stability is not yet assured. Financial-sector weaknesses linger in many...
View ArticleRiding The Tiger Of Debt And Bubbles
China is a good example of how an activist monetary policy can ferment bubbles, ruin the health of a financial system, economic reforms and, eventually, economic growth. Since 2004, China has run a...
View ArticleTrump’s Caricature Of China As A Job-Stealing Economic Bogeyman Is Past Its...
…The version of China that Trump continues to rail against is increasingly out-of-sync with the China that exists today. Its economy, much as other developed economies have already done, has begun...
View ArticleInternational Trade: Where Human Insight Is Still In Demand
It’s an issue when emerging markets are expected to contribute about 60 per cent to global GDP growth up to 2021, according to an International Monetary Fund forecast. China alone currently contributes...
View ArticleIndia’s Economy Is No Longer One Of The Cool Kids
India isn’t keeping the best company. When Reserve Bank of India officials reviewed the global economy at February’s meeting, they ticked off a list of major emerging markets that had struggled: China,...
View ArticleEmerging Markets Aren’t Out Of The Woods Yet
How should emerging-market governments deal with the new original sin? One way would be to develop a large domestic institutional investor base that sets its objectives in domestic currency terms and...
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