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Emerging Markets Focus: Africa

COVER STORY: SEA CHANGE By Jonathan Gregson Africa's economic prospects have never been better. Fifty years after British prime minister Harold Macmillan spoke of a wind of change sweeping across the African continent, the sort of development ...

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Emerging Markets Focus: Asia

COVER STORY: IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT By Anita Hawser Emerging Asia has consolidated its role as the most powerful engine of global economic recovery—but threats to the region's growing prosperity remain. The first thing British prime minister ...

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Emerging Markets Focus: CEE

COVER STORY: HARD TIMES By Justin Keay A sustainable recovery remains as elusive as ever for many of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the demise of the ...

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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 ...

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Emerging Markets Focus: Middle East

COVER STORY: INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT SUSTAINS GROWTH By Gordon Platt High oil prices are keeping government spending flowing strongly into major projects, while debt-laden Dubai has taken a turn for the better. Dubai’s world-class infrastructure gave the emirate’s ...

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Emerging Markets Focus: Rising Stars

COVER STORY: EMERGING MARKETS FOCUS 2010 By Gordon Platt After an impressive 2010, the coming year looks likely to bring more good news for most emerging markets. Emerging markets are giving capital controls a good name. Long ...

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Ford’s Turkish Van Drives Into US Market

COMPANY TO WATCH: FORD OTOSAN/TURKEY By Gordon Platt Ford Otosan, a joint venture between Ford Motor of the US and Koç Group, a leading industrial conglomerate based in Turkey, exports its products to more than 60 countries. Soon ...

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Frontier Markets Index Tracks New Asset Class

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: NEWS By Gordon Platt Russell Investments, based in Washington state, introduced a new index, the Russell Frontier Index, that initially includes 683 stocks from 41 countries, none of which are included in the firm's emerging-markets ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

The Great Divide

ANALYSIS: GLOBAL GROWTH By Laurence Neville As companies thrive while countries struggle, a split seems to be emerging between macroeconomic and corporate performance. Observers of the global economy could be forgiven for being a little confused of ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets Focus: Africa

Emerging Markets Focus: Asia

Emerging Markets Focus: CEE

Emerging Markets Focus: Latin America

Emerging Markets Focus: Middle East

Emerging Markets Focus: Rising Stars

Ford’s Turkish Van Drives Into US Market

Frontier Markets Index Tracks New Asset Class

The Great Divide

Country Report Lebanon

Africa’s Lion Awakens

Coming In From The Cold