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Emerging Markets : Financial Crisis Repercussions Threaten Putin’s Legacy

RUSSIA Defending his legacy: Putin spends his way out of financial crisis. The Russian economy continued to slide down a slippery slope of economic crisis as a series of adjustments to the trading corridor of the ruble reflected ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Nigeria Sets Up Credit Bureau

Africa Africa's airlines are looking to tap new credit lines. The Central Bank of Nigeria issued guidelines for establishing and operating credit bureaus, in a move that will support the development of the country’s credit market by providing ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Region Feels Effects Of Global Slowdown

MIDDLE EAST Trouble in paradise: Dubai feels the chill of a global recession. Property prices on Dubai’s upscale Palm Jumeirah, an artificial island shaped like a palm tree, fell sharply late last year. Construction work on the Trump ...

Country Report

Features : Country Report : Taiwan

Policymakers in Taiwan are pulling out all the stops in their response to the global economic slump. Taiwan's president Ma Ying-jeou: Promoting better relations with China. Taiwan is an economic success story. The island, despite political ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features : Eastern Promise

CHINA AND INDIA As the global economy continues to struggle, many are hoping China and India will save the world from a synchronized dive into recession. Growth industry: India's call center business is flourishing. As the United States ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Milestones : Ethanol Industry Faces Prospect Of Demand Slump

Brazil Not so sweet: Predicted demand for Brazil's ethanol is falling. Just a year after Petrobras, Brazil’s state-controlled oil company, predicted Brazil would triple its annual ethanol output to around 70 billion liters by 2020, the market ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Milestones : Rating Slides As Default Looms

ARGENTINA President Kirchner makes overtures to avoid debt default. After months of analysts’ warnings that Argentina may be facing a new debt default, Standard & Poor’s agreed. The ratings agency lowered Argentina’s sovereign rating on October 31 ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Cover Story : Capitalizing on the Crisis

CAPITALIZING ON THE CRISIS RETURN OF THE IMF As crippled nations beat a path to its door, the IMF is enjoying a dramatic return from near-irrelevance. How it wields its revived power and influence will determine its long-term future. ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Banks Continue Consolidation

BRAZIL Brazil’s banks continued their consolidation trend, with the most recent deal in November creating Latin America’s largest financial group. Itaú, Brazil’s second-largest non-state-owned bank, announced its acquisition of Unibanco, the country’s third-largest, in a stock transaction valued ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Braced For Global Slowdown

CHINA Chinese authorities in infrastructure spending spree to stimulate economy. China will spend 4 trillion yuan ($586 billion) over the next two years on infrastructure and social welfare projects, the country’s State Council announced on November 9. Policymakers ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Colombian Cement Maker Starts Level I Adr Program

DR NEWS Cementos Argos, the fifth-largest cement producer in Latin America, began trading its shares in the US over-the-counter market in the form of American depositary receipts. The Medellín, Colombia-based company makes white and gray cement, as well ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Crisis Starts To Bite Harder

AFRICA Manuel: Rand's slide will help the country balance its books. Johannesburg-based AngloGold Ashanti, Africa’s largest gold producer, hopes to refinance a $1 billion convertible bond before Christmas, despite current market conditions that have all but closed the ...