Via Emerging Markets Insights, a report on Ethiopia: From Addis Ababa to Mekele, my latest trip to Ethiopia provided insights for the improving investment climate, in particular for consumer goods companies. Despite the absence of international food chains, American and European personal care and household products fill the shelves of small stores in the capital […]
Read more »Via WorldCrunch, a look on China’s “String of Pearls” strategy to secure the ports of south Asia: In the port of Chittagong, containers pile up like colorful cubes of sugar. Dozens of ships scurry down the estuary of the Karnaphuli, the river that winds around the economic capital of Bangladeshto finally stream down into the […]
Read more »Via Foreign Policy, a look at why Africa’s growth skeptics have got it wrong. The continent’s rise is very real: The counter-attack, when it came, failed to live up to our expectations. As the authors of a book that challenges so much of what passes for conventional wisdom about Africa in financial, academic, and NGO […]
Read more »Via Emerging Frontiers blog, a look at Pakistan: When Pakistan receives international media coverage, it is usually not pretty. The world’s sixth most populous country has remained in the headlines due to its shaky security situation, including bomb attacks and an ongoing Taliban insurgency near the border with Afghanistan. This year’s upcoming elections will cast […]
Read more »Courtesy of The Economist, an interesting article on emerging market consumers: INTELLIGENCE agencies seldom take a sunny view of the world. Yet the latest report from America’s National Intelligence Council (“Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds”) is rather cheerful. The council frets about threats ranging from cyber-sabotage to nuclear holocaust (in a brilliant piece of understatement […]
Read more »Via Foreign Affairs, a look at how global changes are impacting the world energy order: The energy map of the world is being redrawn — and the global geopolitical order is adrift in consequence. We are moving away from a world dominated by a few energy mega-suppliers, such as Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela, and […]
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