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Emerging Markets : IMF And Fed Fail To Stem Asset Flight

NEWS The International Monetary Fund’s new short-term lending program and Federal Reserve swap lines could help ease currency and interest rate pressures in eligible emerging market countries but may be no panacea for the exodus of private funds ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Medvedev’s Troubles Set Stage For Putin’s Return

RUSSIA Medvedev: Struggling through a turbulent first year in office. The Russian government is struggling to contain a rapidly unfolding and sharply accelerating economic crisis. The ruble has continued to slide—the currency has devalued 10% against the dollar ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Tiger Brands/South Africa – Tiger Brands Pounces In Kenya

COMPANY TO WATCH: TIGER BRANDS/SOUTH AFRICA Tiger Brands, South Africa’s biggest food producer, is expanding internationally, particularly in Africa and primarily through acquisitions. The company recently completed the purchase of a controlling interest in HACO Industries, a Kenya-based ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features : An Uphill Battle

AFRICA Regional trading groups are struggling to boost intra-regional trade flows in sub-Saharan Africa. Illicit trade continues to flourish in Southern Africa, with smuggled goods totaling an estimated $50 billion a year. Fears of a global recession and a ...

Banking

Features : Best Laid Plans

MIDDLE EAST Determined to avoid repeating past mistakes, oil-rich nations in the Middle East have worked hard to diversify their economies. So far they have fared well, but pitfalls remain. Oil is integral to the Middle East's economic fortunes, ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features : Brazil Points The Way

LATIN AMERICA President Lula’s bold program of social and economic reform has become a model for economies in Latin America and beyond. Under Lula, Brasilia has focused on growing the economy in a way that benefits people at all ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Features : Breaking Up Or Breaking Down?

THE DECOUPLING DEBATE Proponents of the theory that emerging markets are decoupling from the West’s economies have had a tough year. Their vision may yet be coming true, though. If the United States sneezes, the rest of the world ...

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Features : Crash landing

CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE Central and Eastern Europe has transformed from a beacon of hope into a near basket case astonishingly quickly. Its recovery will be a far slower and no less painful process. Hard hit: Hungary was one ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features : Down But Not Out

ASIA Asia’s emerging markets could not avoid the fallout from the credit crunch, but they stand a good chance of emerging stronger than ever as the dust settles. The 21st century has been good to most emerging economies so ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Features : Victims and saviors

ANNUAL REPORT Emerging markets didn’t start this fire, but they may be the best hope for putting it out. The global financial crisis was clearly stamped “Made in USA,” but the outlook for growth in emerging economies is being ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Milestones : Four-Year Fight Ends In Cafta Ratification

COSTA RICA President Arias successfully concludes free trade agreement. Four years after it was first signed, Costa Rican lawmakers in November finally ratified Cafta, the free trade agreement between Central America, the Dominican Republic and the United States. ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Newsmakers : Oligarchs Face A Bleak Future

RUSSIA Deripaska: A dramatic turnaround The global financial crisis is sucking Russia’s oligarchs into its vortex. Information provider Bloomberg recently estimated that the combined wealth of the 25 richest Russians had plummeted 62% over the six-month period ended ...