Nearly seventeen years after the Dayton Accord, which ended a bitter, sectarian war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, I returned to Bosnia’s Arizona last week to see how that peace agreement was playing-out. Yes, Bosnia has an Arizona. Well, it has an Arizona Market, which emerged in the Brćko district of Bosnia’s Republika Srpska, […]
Burma, or Myanmar, depending where one stands politically, is re-emerging. On the cusp of becoming a hot market in the 1990s, a military coup d’état deposed the freely elected president, Aung San Suu Kyi. That insurrection and subsequent concerns about human-rights abuses and state-sanctioned business practices involving the trafficking of narcotics, people and guns led […]
The American Marketing Association recently co-sponsored a symposium on Emerging Markets. Several scholars, including yours truly, were invited to share their perspectives. Ideas and research, from trends to methods to outcomes, were discussed. In addition to introducing a few of my own projects in emerging markets, I also was asked to synthesize the day’s discourse. […]
The dust has settled on the Egyptian elections: the candidate from the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Mursi, has been elected president. This outcome has created angst in some quarters, including liberal democracies, the foreign investment community, and in the Egyptian military. The concern is that President Mursi and his Party will usher-in a sectarian model of […]
Thanks to the 1986 implementation of a reform policy called Doi Moi, Vietnam has made astonishing progress on many socioeconomic indicators. The country has transitioned from a planned economy and one of the ten poorest countries in the world to an emerging tiger, a World Bank darling for development. Further policy-changes, FDI, and trade – […]
These key strokes are being entered in Cairo, following the recent presidential election. Cairo is of course the capital of Egypt. Egypt of course is an emerging economy; that is, if it gets some things right. One of those things is good governance, which must emerge from free and fair elections. Another thing is a […]
Welcome to my blog on emerging markets. I’ll be posting periodically on various events around the world, with some emphasis on the emerging economies in which I frequently work. I’ve had the good fortune to work in many of them for more than two decades, with the objective to gain understanding and to affect policies […]
Al Gini
Gini in a BottleAndrew Keyt
Family MattersAnne Reilly
N.B.*Cliff Shultz
Emerging MarketsEve Geroulis
The PolisJohn Caltagirone
The Value StreamMaciek Nowak
The Supply ChainMary Ann McGrath
The Market ShareQuinlan Ramble
The Quinlan RambleRaymond Benton Jr
Sustainability and Social EnterpriseStacy Neier
Q the RunwayTimothy Classen
The Pulse