Cañizares Center for Emerging Markets

Two Johnson faculty members, Anne Miroux and Lourdes Casanova, co-author an analytical piece on the rise of emerging market multinational corporations.

In their new book, co-authors Casanova, Cornelius, and Dutta shed light on the role startups play in innovation and economic development in emerging economies.

by Brian Balduzzi, MBA ’18 Introduction Tax experts have long proposed using taxation to alleviate inequality and redistribute income within developing countries (Lustig, 2016). Recent scholarship suggests that adopting and implementing a personal income tax system for developing countries, modeled after that of developed countries, ignores some of the key differences between these two types […]

by Farouk Appiedu, MBA ’17 With a population of 28.2 million, Ghana is considered one of the world’s fastest-growing economies—if not the fastest growing economy in Africa in 2018[1] — and is among the most stable African countries, marked with relatively low corruption and high political stability. Ghana’s $42.69 billion economy (ranked 85th in the […]

While China continues to solidify its lead, other emerging markets show steady economic growth in the Emerging Market Multinationals Report 2017 and in discussions at the 7th Annual Emerging Markets Institute Conference: “Emerging Multinationals in a Changing World

by Armstrong Mbi, One-Year MBA ’18 As a country that makes international news headlines constantly, Israel is a major geopolitical force in the world. A visit to its business, political, and cultural ecosystems is an opportunity that every aspiring global leader should seize. As part of the Cornell itrek 2017 class, I not only participated […]

While China continues to solidify its lead, other emerging markets show steady economic growth in the Emerging Market Multinationals Report 2017 and in discussions at the 7th Annual Emerging Markets Institute Conference: “Emerging Multinationals in a Changing World.”

by Evodio Kaltenecker Introduction Democracies in Latin America await a wave of important elections in 2018. Starting in Costa Rica, with presidential and legislative general election on February 4th, and El Salvador, which will face legislative elections on March 4th, to several other countries in the region, which will cast votes for their legislative branches, […]

This is the third time the Johnson lecturer has received this honor for her work and influence in the Ibero-American space.