Economics, Policy & Regulation
WTO ‘Historic’ Trade Agreement: Is This Anything?
Azevdo: Organization man Remember the days when accession to the World Trade Organization was seen as an admittance ticket into...
Cuba
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Emerging & Frontier Markets
Special Report: Asset Nationalization
WAKE-UP CALL By Laurence Neville The expropriation of private assets in Argentina and Bolivia are a stark reminder of the risk of doing business in developing markets. Nationalization of the political sort—as opposed to pragmatism designed to ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Regional Focus: Latin America
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE By Antonio Guerrero While neither Brazil nor Uruguay have any trade pacts aside from Mercosur, Chile and Mexico have many agreements in place. The two strategies have met with varying success. When ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
EM Regional Review: Latin America
PREPARING FOR THE WORST By Antonio Guerrero Latin American countries are starting to build reserves and diversify economies to brace for a possible global downturn. The question is whether it will be enough to protect the export-driven ...
Award Winners
200 BIGGEST EMERGING MARKET BANKS 2010
Global Finance ranks the 200 Biggest Emerging Market Banks NEW YORK, December 6, 2010 As the world’s key emerging markets...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets Focus: Latin America
COVER STORY: MUTUAL BENEFITS By Antonio Guerrero Latin America is enjoying growing prosperity as the region develops ever-stronger economic ties with Asia. When Chinese President Hu Jintao took his first tour of Latin America in 2004, he ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Coming In From The Cold
ANALYSIS : CUBA By Antonio Guerrero For the first time in decades, signs are beginning to appear that Cuba may be softening its socialist stance. When Cuba's former president Fidel Castro told an American journalist in September ...
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The World’s Best Sub-Custodians
ANNUAL SURVEY: THE WORLD'S BEST SUB-CUSTODIANS Sub-Custodians Feeling The Heat Global investing in turbulent times puts the spotlight on local safekeepers. By Gordon Platt As they seek to reassure investors that their assets in foreign ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Latin America Takes a Right Turn
RIGHT TURN A rash of recent elections in Latin America has produced a marked swing to the political right. The region's new leaders are trying to strike a delicate balance as they attempt to build on their leftist predecessors' ...
Data
Global Economic Indicators: Key Sources and Links
Global Finance’s selection of the best links to authoritative sources of global economic statistics, indicators and data. INTERNATIONAL SOURCES FOR GLOBAL ECONOMIC STATISTICS IMF – International Monetary Fund: Homepage Data and Statistics World Economic Outlook database on selected macroeconomic ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Cover Story : The Party’s Over
LATIN AMERICA Once considered relatively immune to the global economic slump, Latin America is facing hard times as commodity prices crumble, trade dwindles and Venezuela’s oil-funded regional largess begins to dry up. On a roller coaster ride: Wild ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Cover Story : Continental Shift
LATIN AMERICA REGIONAL REPORT Latin American governments’ attempts to gain more control over their countries’ economic fortunes are having far-reaching effects on international corporations doing business in the region. Left in charge: Brazilian president Lula da Silva ...