Cañizares Center for Emerging Markets

Deven Sharma, Founder of Inflexon (www.inflexon.com) , Fellow at Connection Science @ Media Lab, and former President of Standard & Poor Globalization is under assault. What should a reset look like? Globalization pullback is here. However, the promise of global markets also remains very much intact. The pace of globalization has slowed, and its nature […]

Ankara University sociology professor Utku Balaban shares his insights on some of the social dynamics of Turkey’s rapid growth.

The lack of a widespread banking services infrastructure in Mexico creates a problem for poor, rural Mexicans who need and/or want access to traditional banking services by Vidur Ahlowlia, Ahmed Aljabreen & Ben Andryisck As a Managing General Partner for The Simple Group (TSG), Alex Chung focuses on acting as a funding and technology partner […]

Opening trade and financial channels with the rest of the world is essential for Uzbekistan to become a sound economic player. by Anna Poplasky MBA Candidate at Cornell University, Emerging Markets Institute Fellow Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University 2,500 years of being the storefront for the Silk […]

Private investors hesitate to invest in infrastructure in developing countries because of high level of political risk, exchange risk, and demand risk. by HyungJoon (Simon) Kim Based on my summer internship at Pacific Partnerships in New Zealand, I would like to suggest a new Multilateral Development Banks’ contribution model to boost transportation development in emerging […]

Roberto dos Reis Alvarez is the Executive Director of the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils (GFCC – www.thegfcc.org). In his famous book “The World is Flat: a Brief History of the Twenty-First Century”, Thomas Friedman highlights ten forces that are shaping a ‘flat world’. Later in 2005, Richard Florida wrote an article in The Atlantic […]

Corruption and a corrupted way of doing politics, populist measures and relaxed fiscal and monetary policies showed that Brazil still has a long way to go before becoming a developed country. by Decio Oddone, O&G Officer at Prumo Logistics In 1985, after twenty-one years of military rule, a democratic government rose to power in Brazil. […]

We are always online. We pay our rent, buy furniture, take language lessons and schedule our next appointment to the doctor, let alone the time spent on social media. The Internet is part of our lives and we take it for granted. In fact, we barely remember how life was before we could wake up […]

Throughout the last decade, the focus of international business studies guided by the theory of networks has highlighted the role of integration of subsidiaries in the host country business networks as a key factor in explaining the generation of knowledge and innovation in subsidiaries (ANDERSSON, 2003; ANDERSSON; BJÖRKMAN; FORSGREN, 2005; ANDERSSON; FORSGREN; HOLM, 2002; CIABUSCHI; […]