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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 ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

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 ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

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 ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

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

Country Report Lebanon

REFORM CANDIDATE By Justin Keay Sharply rising capital inflows and a stable banking sector have helped Lebanon achieve impressive economic...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Africa’s Lion Awakens

COVER STORY: KENYA – REBIRTH OF A NATION By Dan Keeler With a new constitution, bold economic targets and an ambitious social development strategy, Kenya is determined to become the new star of Africa. All the signs so ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Coming In From The Cold

ANALYSIS : CUBA By Antonio Guerrero For the first time in decades, signs are beginning to appear that Cuba may be softening its socialist stance. When Cuba's former president Fidel Castro told an American journalist in September ...

Country Report

Country Report: Lebanon

REFORM CANDIDATE By Justin Keay Sharply rising capital inflows and a stable banking sector have helped Lebanon achieve impressive economic growth. Maintaining it will require far-reaching reforms, though. Winston Churchill once famously described Russia as a riddle ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

DRs: Russia Revokes License Of Moscow Depositary

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: DR NEWS By Gordon Platt The Russian securities market regulator revoked the license of the Moscow Central Depositary, following an audit that alleged that the depositary ignored court rulings, the regulator's own instructions and regulations ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

EM Funds Attract Record Inflows

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: NEWS By Gordon Platt Equity funds that are mandated to invest in all emerging markets globally ended September with their 18th consecutive week of net inflows, according to Cambridge, Massachusetts–based EPFR Global. Year-to-date flows into ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets Roundup: Africa

ROUNDUP By Antonio Guerrero Ghana’s mining sector gets a funding boost from China Ghana has become the leading recipient in sub-Saharan Africa of Chinese infrastructure financing, giving China unrivaled access to the country's commodities sector. Ghana signed a ...