Emerging Markets Institute
News, stories, and thought leadership related to the role of emerging markets in the global economy.
Social Impact Bond in Emerging Markets: Funding Chinese Migrant Workers’ Children Digital Education
With budgets tightening worldwide, there is a need to channel limited government and international organization funding towards high-quality developmental projects. A new type of investment vehicle, social impact bond, carries […]
Global Latinas, as part of the solution of Latin America’s social issues
Global Latinas realize that, as they develop their global ambitions, their home country and the Latin American region in which they operate, need to be strong by Lourdes Casanova, EMI […]
Doing Business in Nigeria
Although Nigeria is Africa’s biggest economy, it has been battling with economic and political instability, particularly Boko Haram and the recent oil crisis. by Ibijoke Oke, MPA ’16, EMI Fellow A few […]
One Week in Bangkok
The 2016 Mai Bangkok Business Challenge. by Jeremy Kuhre, MBA ’16, EMI Fellow “I’ll tell you what. I’ll offer you $300,000 for 50% of the company right now.” My partners […]
Rizwan Quraishi, MBA’16, Wins First Place in Morgan Stanley Campus Photo Competition
Winning image captures early mangrove saplings coming to life, taken on an eco-tour with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) along the Makran Coastal Highway in Pakistan Rizwan Quraishi, […]
Baidu’s recent trouble opens great opportunity for Bing in China
Baidu is involved in a series of public relations crisis, which opens a great opportunity for Bing to explore the China market. by Winston Sun, MBA ’16, EMI Fellow Launched […]
Insights on the UAE from an MBA student
Johnson UAE Trek Spring 2016 by Jonathan Jorge Swavely, MBA ’16 To be honest, I did not have very high expectations for this trip to begin with. Of all the […]
Africa the Country: The Prejudice that is Hurting a Continent and Investors
Many people from the US and Europe tend to group the different countries of Africa into one generalized nation of Africa by David Matthew Breazzano, MBA ’16, EMI Fellow In […]
Rethinking Emerging Markets: Unwinding the Western Lens
While the last five years has been a difficult period for the emerging economies, there is no denying the seismic shift in the global economy of the 21st century, moving the […]