Cañizares Center for Emerging Markets

EMnet Business Meeting on Latin America “Investment and Confidence through Stronger Institutions” 28 May 2018 Venue: Room Bloche Lainé – French Ministry for the Economy and Finance – Paris, France 8:30-9:00 Registration and welcome coffee 9:00-9:10 Opening remarks Introduction: Lorenzo Pavone, Head of Unit, Partnerships and Networks, OECD Development Centre (acting) Ángel Melguizo, Head of Unit, Latin […]

  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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

On April 27th, 2018 the Emerging Markets Institute (EMI) will host the first EMI Alumni Day at the Tata Innovation Center at Cornell Tech. The event serves to celebrate the work of the class of 2017 and 2018 Cornell Tech EMI Fellows. When?April 27, 20184:30PM – 6:30PM Where?Cornell TechTata Innovation Center, room 32711 West Loop […]

By Crosby Fish MBA ’18, Navdeep Singh Cornell Tech MBA, and James Godbout MBA ’18 The subject of emerging markets can be so broad and complex that it is sometimes difficult to understand how to think about opportunity and prioritization in the world’s fastest-growing economies. Clearly, the pace of growth and rapidly increasing standards of […]