Emerging Markets Institute

News, stories, and thought leadership related to the role of emerging markets in the global economy.

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Where to Play and How to Win: How Megatrends and Country Contexts Govern Strategy in Emerging Markets

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 […]

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The challenges of Chinese investment in Latin America

With São Paulo hosting the World Economic Forum on Latin America 2018, Johnson faculty member Lourdes Casanova argues that it’s time to consider China’s important influence on economies and business in the region.

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Will Venezuela’s New ‘Petro’ Cryptocurrency Help Its Economy?

by Carlos Serquen, MBA ’18 Venezuela will Create New ‘Petro’ Cryptocurrency The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, announced the creation of a Venezuelan cryptocurrency called the “Petro.” He mentioned that […]

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Redefining the emerging market multinationals

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

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Staking Startups

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.

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Progressing Towards an Equal and Growing Latin America

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 […]

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Ghana and its Multinationals: Reigniting the Spark

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] — […]