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  Issue NO. 24 By Anne Miroux* Lourdes Casanova** While most emerging economies have long developed clear policies to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), few have adopted proactive policies to support outward FDI (OFDI). In what follows, we examine the various phases of OFDI comparing China, Korea and Brazil and how this OFDI became one […]

  Issue NO. 23 By Otaviano Canuto* Brazilian “conditional cash transfers” are small amounts of money distributed by the government directly to very poor households on condition that their children attend school and are vaccinated. Do you know why they go to the household women? Researches undertaken in the 1990s in the country – and […]

An unlikely journey from biotech scientist to documentary filmmaker Those who remember reading about Zhu Shen, MBA ’98, in this magazine in 2008-09 may recall a radiant, confident young woman talking about the potential for biotechnological cures for cancer. As founder and head of BioForesight, she linked investors with biotechnology opportunities in China. Much has […]

by Audi Prabowo , MBA ’18 Home to more than 650 million people spread across 11 countries, Southeast Asia has seen an uptick in trade since the end of the Vietnam War. Recently, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has pushed for free trade policies that enable the flow of goods, services, and people […]

by Nicholas Deaton, Anish Kumar, Nicholas Quigley, Cornell Tech MBA ’18 Juan Valdez Cafe can trace its roots back to December 12, 2002, when the Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia (Fedecafé) established the brand through Procafecol S.A. Its eponymous first storefront opened at Bogota’s El Dorado International Airport. Today, Procafecol continues its original mission […]

by James Tseng, AMBA ’18 China’s nominal GDP surpassed that of Japan in 2010, becoming the second largest economy in the world. In 2017, China’s annual GDP growth rate surpassed 6%, and its nominal GDP was over $12 trillion.1 Commentators estimated that China would become the world’s leading economy by 2032.2 In 2012, the capital outflow from […]

Harlan Blynn, MBA ’10 Last year, Harlan Blynn was reorganizing papers in the office of his Denver-based consulting firm, Certain Rivers Strategic Marketing Services, when he stumbled across his Johnson admissions essay about urban farming. After rereading it, he suspended his management consulting practice to launch a new startup — an urban farm in Denver. […]

The 3rd annual Contemporary China Student Symposium will be held on Saturday, April 28 from 10:00AM to 4:40PM in 401 Warren Hall. (Lunch will be served.) The theme for this year’s symposium is China in Transition. China in the Reform Era has been characterized by swift transformation at a massive scale, whether from the perspective […]

Organizers: Arnab Basu, Professor (Dyson), Lourdes Casanova, Senior Lecturer of Management (Johnson) and Sofia Kalantzi, Lecturer of Economics, (Johnson)   The Emerging Markets Institute provides thought leadership on the role of emerging markets – and emerging market multinationals – in the global economy. The institute brings together preeminent practitioners and academics from around the world […]