After the pull comes the push - at least as far as emerging market investments are concerned. The "pull force" is the attractiveness of emerging market opportunities for investors, while the increasingly important "push force" is the Federal Reserve's monetary policy which is pushing US money out of the country. The Fed's second round ...
Investments in Emerging Markets are Increasingly Driven by Inflationary Fears in the US
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What do Merar, Linked-In and the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics have in common?
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The answer is all three present solutions for reducing friction in the search for information.
The Nobel Prize was awarded earlier in October for research on why unoccupied jobs exist even when there are unemployed people. To a large extent this boils down to the high cost of gathering information on available jobs. (The Economist ...
China’s venture capital and private equity industry was until recentlydominated by foreign currency offshore funds run by internationalinvestors. However, in 2009 Chinese-yuan funds for the first time took thelead over foreign-currency funds in terms of amount of new capital raisedand number of deals. Domestic funds in China are smaller but nimbler asthey face fewer ...
Ernst & Young's 2010, European Attractiveness Survey
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The below presented Ernst & Young's 2010 European attractiveness survey is based on an original two step methodology that reflects Europe's real attractiveness for foreign direct investors. The analysis takes into account the economic recession in Europe and the rise of the BRIC countries, and discusses the related challenges and opportunities Europe is facing ...
The current report, kindly provided by Earnst & Young, aims at assisting companies from the consumer products sector to adapt to the new reality in Russia. The report provides an overview of recent economic and sector developments, critical success factors and recommendations.
Critical success factors
Pulling together some of the key themes from the meeting and ...
Agro-investment in Africa - Impact on land and livelihoods in Mozambique and Tanzania
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The current article is part of a publication by Noragric, the Department of International Environment and Development Studies at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, on the social impact of investments in Agriculture. The research fosuses on two case studies, namely Mozambique and Tanzania, and explores in details the problem of 'land grabbing' resulting from ...
We'd like to present our readers a policy brief provided by the China Advisory Council, written from the perspective of European small and medium-sized enterprisis considering operation in, or already operating in China. The brief includes considerations on the investment climate in China and the conditions for success for European SMEs in the foreign ...
A report by Clifford Chance on the current investment opportunities in India’s M&A market.
Legal and policy reforms have taken hold of India, thanks to a stable government and a focus on economic growth.
Since the early 1990s, foreign investment policies have been progressively liberalised, irrespective of the political leadership, contributing to the ...
Business in Bulgaria
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If you are considering Bulgaria as a potential destination for your investments, you might be interested in checking out the current report providing useful information about doing business in Bulgaria.
The report is written by William Sullivan, a Fulbright Scholar in Bulgaria during 2009-2010, who was formerly Program Coordinator and Research Associate at the Center ...
Legal and Tax Treatment of the Sale of Non-Performing Loans in Ukraine
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An improvement in the liquidity of banks, as well as the need for an additional injection of money, became crucial for Ukrainian banks in the aftermath of the recent global financial crisis. An Increase in the number of non-performing loans (NPLs) negatively impacted the overall liquidity of Ukrainian banks by forcing them to hold mandatory ...