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Emerging Markets : Infosys Climbs Up The Value Chain

COMPANY TO WATCH: INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES/INDIA Infosys Technologies, India’s second-largest IT services provider, announced a $755 million cash deal to buy UK-based Axon, which advises companies on installing business software created by SAP of Germany. If the transaction is completed, it ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Infrastructure Fund In Controversy

AFRICA Unemployment and homelessness have risen sharply in Zimbabwe. Following the controversial reelection of president Robert Mugabe in June, Zimbabwe has fallen into even greater economic chaos. Officials said annual inflation leapt to 11.2 million percent in ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Russia’s Electricity Spin-Offs Create 11 New Dr Programs

DR NEWS Eleven new companies, spun off from Russia’s former electricity monopoly, selected The Bank of New York Mellon as the depositary for their Regulation S and Rule 144A global depositary receipt programs. The bank is ...

Country Report

Features : Balancing Act

COUNTRY REPORT / TURKEY Turkey’s Islamist government has narrowly avoided a constitutional crisis, but it is still treading a fine line in its quest for economic progress. When Turkey’s constitutional court dismissed a move in July to outlaw the ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Growing pains

SPOTLIGHT / EMERGING MARKETS Emerging markets have been some of the best performers of recent years. Is their continued growth now under threat? Since the credit crunch began more than a year ago, it has inflicted most pain on ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features : Power Play

ANALYSIS / RUSSIA’S GEORGIA GAMBIT Russia’s recent assault on Georgia raises some scary prospects for European nations dependent on energy supplies from West Asia. Double act: Vladimir Putin passed the presidency to Dmitry Medvedev but still retains much ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features : The perils of prosperity

ECONOMIC UPDATE / CHINA As the dust settles after the Olympic games, China is facing a less certain economic future. Relentless progress: Construction work in Beijing's booming central business district. China opened the 29th Olympic games on August ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Milestones : IMF Seeks To Buff Up Tarnished Image

UNITED STATES IMF: Many view it as responsible for causing, not reducing, poverty. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is not likely to win any popularity contests anywhere in the world these days. Emerging market governments have been ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Newsmakers : Way Cleared For Jacob Zuma To Run For President

SOUTH AFRICA Zuma: Election victory all but assured after charges are dropped. South Africa’s High Court last month dropped all corruption charges against Jacob Zuma, president of the African National Congress (ANC). Although the decision was based ...

Banking

Emerging Markets : Banks Seek Growth After Profits Slide

BRAZIL Digging in: Brazilian miner Vale is investing heavily. After several years of steady profit growth, Brazil’s banking sector reported a slowdown in second-quarter 2008. Bradesco, Brazil’s largest non-state bank by assets, posted a 13% drop in second-quarter ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : China In Olympian Bid For Global Respect

China opened the 29th Olympic Summer Games in Beijing on August 8 with a ceremony incorporating 15,000 performers and 29,000 fireworks shells and attended by US president George Bush, French president Nicolas Sarkozy and other world leaders. China spent a ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Communist Parties Give Economic Reforms A Boost

INDIA Manmohan Singh: Has more scope to enact reforms. India’s ruling coalition, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) led by Manmohan Singh, survived a vote of no confidence in late July after the three communist parties in parliament said ...