Economics, Policy & Regulation
Sri Lanka: Tapering Wont Affect Us
MILESTONES By Valentina Pasquali The US Federal Reserves gradual withdrawal from the unconventional monetary policies of the past few years...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
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Features
Vietnam: Not For The Faint Of Heart
FRONTIER MARKETS REPORT<br />
Vietnam has great potential, but it also has significant hurdles to overcome to improve its business climate for foreign investors. Given the government’s dominance of industries such as agriculture, utilities and banking, those looking to invest must be prepared for the challenge.
Award Winners
World’s Best Treasury & Cash Management Providers 2014
GOLD STANDARD By Rebecca Brace and Anita Hawser Global Finance presents the winners of its annual Best Treasury & Cash Management Providers awards. Global multinational corporates may have come out of the 2008 global financial crisis better off than the ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Zimbabwe: Mugabe Woos Foreign Investors
Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe is one of Africa’s last old-school dictators. But he’s provingthat he may be able to change—for the better.In the decade ending in 2008, Zimbabwe’s economy shrank at an annual rate of 6.1%. Then,in2009, the country adopted the US dollar. Since then, growth has averaged nearly 8% per year...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Bangladesh: New Parliaments Legitimacy
MILESTONES By Thomas Clouse Bangladesh held national elections in early January despite escalating political violence and a boycott by opposition parties. The ruling party, the Awami League, easily kept control of parliament, with its candidates winning 232 of ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Dubai Gets World Expo Fever
EMERGING MARKETS ROUNDUP By Gordon Platt The Dubai Financial Market was one of the best-performing equity markets in the world...
Editor's Letter
Editor’s Letter: Is The Future MINT?
DEAR READER FEBRUARY 2014 | VOL. 28 NO. 2 In 2001, Jim ONeill, then chief economist and head of asset...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Emerging-Markets Debt Issuance Declines
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS By Gordon Platt The volume of emerging-markets corporate debt offerings declined 6.2% in 2013 from a year earlier, even as global high-yield debt issuance set new records, according to Thomson Reuters. Issuers in just three ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Free Bird: Yukos Oils Ex-Chief Released
EMERGING MARKETS ROUNDUP By Kim Iskyan In December, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, one of Russia’s most high-profile political prisoners and the former CEO of Yukos Oil—at one point Russia’s largest oil company—was abruptly released. He had served about 10 ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
IsraelPalestine Gas Accord
MILESTONES By Luca Ventura When in early January the US secretary of state John Kerry traveled to the Middle East,...
Banking
Middle East Banking Legend Retires
NEWSMAKERS By Gordon Platt Ibrahim Dabdoub, group CEO of National Bank of Kuwait, is stepping down after 30 years as...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
New Version Of Socialism In Cuba
MILESTONES By Valentina Pasquali Ever since Ral Castro took over from his brother Fidel in 2008, he has been opening...