Ties to old world hit emerging markets
As the eurozone crisis spreads from Greece to Italy, countries far afield are being sucked into the maelstorm. The world’s emerging markets, which led the way out of global recession in 2009, are now...
View ArticleGuest post: Mexico’s chance to focus G20 on trade and help fix global crisis
By Luis de la Calle The absence of any real progress at the recent G20 summit is a wake-up call to policy makers. They should jettison the sprawling agenda that has come to typify the group and focus...
View Article[snap] India IIP contracts 5.1% in Oct
In October, India’s once-robust industrial output contracted by 5.1 per cent from the same month a year earlier – further proof that the economy was slowing – and down from 1.9 per cent in September,...
View ArticleAmartya Sen: snakes and ladders
Like all good boys and girls, the readers of beyondbrics deserve their Christmas presents. So here for our loyal followers – and for those dipping into the site for the first time – is a seasonal gift...
View ArticleBrazil moves up a place in GDP
It’s another milestone – an emerging economy overtakes a developed one in terms of GDP. Earlier this year it was China overtaking Japan. This time, Brazil has moved ahead of the UK as the 6th biggest...
View ArticleHon Hai bracing for recession
Taiwan’s exports have been slowing for months but with the US economy showing signs of recovery recently and better-than-expected Christmas holiday sales for the tech sector, some people have started...
View Article10 things about EMs from the IMF
The IMF World Economic Outlook update released on Tuesday makes pretty ugly reading, as Chris Giles reports in the FT, with world economic growth set to be significantly weaker than previously thought....
View ArticleAfrica: trade with your neighbours
That trade is a route to prosperity is not a new idea. But trade with whom? For African countries, the answer is close to home: each other. Leaders at the African Union summit at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,...
View ArticleIMF: downgrade on growth
Little surprise that the International Monetary Fund cut its world economic growth predictions in its latest forecasts published on Wednesday, with only three major economies escaping the chop – Japan,...
View ArticleEmerging markets to transform trade flows
Exports between leading emerging markets will drive global growth in the coming decades, transforming international trade flows, according to a report published on Wednesday, writes Claire Jones. The...
View ArticleBank of Korea: better times ahead
The Bank of Korea held rates steady on Thursday at 2.5 per cent – the third hold in a row. So far, all as expected. But the statement from the bank was a fair bit more optimistic than in previous...
View ArticleIMF: EM risks remain
Anyone reading the IMF’s latest update to its World Economic Outlook might come away worried about a repeat of the emerging market ructions in 2013 over the US scaling back its asset buying programme...
View Article‘Doing Business’ survey at World Bank has a new look, but China will still...
The World Bank’s annual “Doing Business” rankings have long been a favourite grousing point for policymakers in the developing world and a regular source of tension between the bank and its member...
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