Emerging and frontier markets are a focal point of this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which takes place […]
Africa’s Failure to Industrialize: Bad Luck or Bad Policy?
On Thursday, November 20 the United Nations celebrated the 25th Africa Industrialization Day. But perhaps “celebrate” is not exactly the […]
Happiest and saddest countries 2013
The Prosperity Index Everywhere you look in this world there are signs of instability, destruction, hopelessness. Syria is in civil […]
Smallest Stock Exchanges Can Only Go Up
by Thomas Kostigen, Market Watch, The world’s smallest stock exchange opened last week in Cambodia and joins a growing cadre […]
The 15 Countries With The Highest Inflation Rates
Like death and taxes, no one escapes the ravages of inflation. These days, it’s the talk of folks from Caracas […]
In Africa, can Brazil be the anti-China?
By David Lewis, Reuters, NIMBA-BUCHANAN RAILWAY, Liberia (Reuters) – In the muggy forest of central Liberia, a gang of workers […]