Cañizares Center for Emerging Markets

In an attempt to find a balance between Hugo Chavez’ legacy of Bolivarian socialism and the harsh reality of its current economic situation, Venezuela grapples with its greatest identity crisis of the past few decades. by Jacob Jelin Schwarz, MBA ’17, EMI Fellow In an attempt to find a balance between Hugo Chavez’ legacy of […]

Is investing in Africa within China’s strategic interest? by Calvin Okwuego, EMI Fellow The stewardess announces the descent from 30,000 feet and passengers begin to buckle up. You anxiously wait in excitement as the plane pierces through the clouds. The visibility of the land comes closer within eye sight. An unfamiliar, yet familiar feeling consumes […]

There is concern about China slowing down and the impact to the global economy. by Trisha Chang, MBA ’16, EMI Fellow You may have heard in the news of China experiencing an imbalanced economy due to several factors such as overcapacity, being highly leveraged, a declining GDP growth rate, lower ratings on the manufacturing index, […]

The rapid devaluation of the Brazilian Real over the course of 2015 is the result of several factors. by Radek Janowski, MBA ’16, EMI Fellow The Brazilian Real recently reached a historic low against major currency pairs, touching over 4.20 Brazilian Reals to the U.S. Dollar. The currency has declined almost 50% this year. The […]

Dr. Ying Zhang is the Associate Dean for China Business and Relations at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School & Cornell University.  China’s One belt one road (OBOR) policy, together with AIIB strategy can be viewed as a fundamentally creative platform to stimulate Asian and European economies, particularly through exporting […]

Latin America begins another cycle in the region’s decades-long boom/bust economy. by Brian Liberatore, MBA ’16, EMI Fellow The party is over in Latin America. Again. The last decade saw soaring commodity prices flood the region with tax dollars, bloating government budgets, ballooning social programs, and distorting currencies. Now oversupply and shrinking Chinese demand for […]

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Opportunities exist in other emerging markets than the BRICS countries. by Chen Chen, Visiting Scholar On June 2nd 2015, a conference titled “Beyond the BRICs” was hosted at Northeastern University and co-?organized by the Center for Emerging Mar­kets at the D’Amore-McKim School of Busi­ness and Cor­nell University’s Emerging Mar­kets Insti­tute (EMI) at the Samuel Curtis […]

We just graduated 31 students from our EMI Fellows program. They took with them the experiences, learnings, and connections built through the Emerging Markets Institute. We wish them well and know they will keep the institute in mind as their careers develop. by Richard Coyle We just graduated 31 students from our EMI Fellows program. […]