Global Emerging Markets (GEMs)

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Emerginvest is a global finance portal connecting investors worldwide with high-quality investment research, data, and tools covering 125 stock markets globally.

In the wake of the current global financial crisis, not all markets have been affected the same way. Emerginvest points you to the international markets and sectors that have already begun growing, so that you can build a strong, globally diversified portfolio.

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North Korea: Not Quite Ready for Prime Time

I was recently in Pyongyang, at the invitation of the Korean Association for Economic Development, to participate in a two-day conference on special economic zones, co-sponsored by the University of British Columbia. It was one of the most surreal experiences...

Published 11-21-2013 12:41 PM by Charles Krakoff

Filed under: North Korea
The Entrepreneurial State, or, You Didn’t Build That

President Obama received a lot of outraged criticism from the right during the 2012 campaign for his remark, “You didn’t build that.” What he meant, though he uncharacteristically said it in a fairly clumsy way, was that for every proudly...

Published 09-13-2013 1:04 PM by Charles Krakoff

Filed under: Obama, Economy
Trade Agreements and Cultural Exceptions: A Plea for Tolerance

Outgoing WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy has recently criticized EU-US and transpacific trade talks, which have the potential to create the world’s two largest free trade areas and measurably increase prosperity and growth for hundreds of millions, if...

Published 08-05-2013 12:02 PM by Charles Krakoff

Filed under: emerging market
U. S. Farm Policy 2013: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

In principle, the decision by House Republicans to strip the food stamp program out of the current farm bill is not a bad thing. In practice, it may not be so bad either. For the past 40 years or so, agricultural subsidies and supplemental nutrition programs...

Published 07-14-2013 1:13 AM by Charles Krakoff

Filed under: emerging markets
It’s Broke, Now Fix It: Patent Protection and Regulatory Capture in the Pharmaceutical Industry

For all its faults, the pharmaceutical industry remains one area in which the United States remains a competitive world leader. But without drastic changes in the way the FDA regulates the industry, this advantage may not last. Back in the early 1980s...

Published 06-16-2013 11:33 PM by Charles Krakoff

Filed under: emerging market, Industry, Pharmaceutical
Afghanistan: A Decade of Progress and Hope?

I met Taymor Kamrany in 2003, just over a year after the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan had ousted the Taliban. We were both in Kabul, working on a USAID program to improve the environment for business and help government institutions rebuild...

Published 05-28-2013 9:23 PM by Charles Krakoff

Filed under: emerging market, Afghanistan, outlook
Dealing with Nigeria’s Jihadist Threat

About 10 days ago I sat at breakfast in Lomé, the capital of Togo, a sliver of a country in West Africa, watching French TV news of the capture, and what turned out to be false reports of the liberation, of seven French tourists in northern Cameroon...

Published 03-07-2013 12:47 AM by Charles Krakoff
The Gods Must Be Angry: Olympics to Drop Wrestling

Slavish obedience to tradition is never a good thing, but neither is its wanton disregard. So what are we to make of the recent announcement by the International Olympic Committee that wrestling, one of the original sports in both the ancient and modern...

Published 02-21-2013 5:59 PM by Charles Krakoff

Filed under: Olympics, Wrestling
Arming the Syrian Rebels Would Be a Terrible Mistake

After watching from the sidelines for nearly two years, many of the world’s political and opinion leaders are now calling for the West to supply arms to the Syrian rebels. British Prime Minister David Cameron has spoken of a “strategic imperative”...

Published 01-07-2013 12:19 AM by Charles Krakoff
Like a Ton of BRICS: Let’s Drop the Catchy Emerging Markets Acronymns

Eurasia Group founder and emerging markets guru Ian Bremmer has come around to the view that the BRICS construct is nothing more than a bunch of countries “united by a catchy acronym” and little else. His op-ed piece in last Friday’s...

Published 12-14-2012 1:38 PM by Charles Krakoff
François Hollande’s African Adventure: The End of Françafrique?

The official visits to Paris during the first week of July by three African heads of state raised more questions than answers about the Africa policy of François Hollande, the newly-elected French President. On July 2 it was President Alpha Conde...

Published 08-01-2012 10:46 AM by Charles Krakoff

Filed under: france, corruption, Mali, Senegal, Congo, GEMs, Charles Krakoff, Cameroon, Tunisia, Libya, Elf Aquitaine, Bongo, Issoufou, Bolloré, Sall, Liberia, Areva, Bouygues, Bourgi, Mitterand, affaire Elf, Hollande, Charles Taylor, De Gaulle, Messieurs Afrique, Le Floch Prigent, Blaise Compaoré, Ben Ali, Roland Dumas, Burkina Faso, Sarkozy, francafrique, Gabon, Foccart, Villepin, Sassou Nguesso, Niger, Monsieur Afrique
Egypt’s Soft Coup d’Etat

In retrospect, no one should be surprised at recent moves by the Egyptian armed forces to consolidate their power, in what some have called a soft coup d’état. Although the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which has ruled the country...

Published 07-11-2012 9:13 AM by Charles Krakoff

Filed under: Egypt, GEMs, Charles Krakoff, Morsi, Islamists, Mubarak, Sadat, Tahrir, Muslim Brotherhood, Nasser, Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Ahmed Shafiq
Good Money After Bad: Why Government Should Not Fund Private Businesses

Curt Schilling is a hero to Boston sports fans. In 2004, at the relatively advanced age of 38, he valiantly pitched and won two critical post-season games while suffering from an ankle injury so severe that his sock was soaked with blood, propelling the...

Published 06-01-2012 3:55 PM by Charles Krakoff

Filed under: GEMs, Charles Krakoff, venture capital, Carcieri, MMORPG, 38 Studios, Magic Johnson, Kingdoms of Amalur, Lenny Dykstra, Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation, Solyndra, Copernicus, Curt Schilling, Kleiner Perkins
Who Should Lead the World Bank

by Charles Krakoff Jagdish Bhagwati, a Professor at Columbia University and a leading development economist, wrote the following letter in yesterday’s Financial Times about President Obama’s designation of Jim Yong Kim to succeed Robert Zoellick...

Published 05-01-2012 4:24 PM by Charles Krakoff

Filed under: Obama, GEMs, Charles Krakoff, World Bank, Jose Ocampo, Jim Yong Kim, Jagdish Bhagwati, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Robert Zoellick, President
Déjà Vu All Over Again: Afghanistan Reprises the Indochina War

If existing parallels between the U.S. experience in Indochina and our current entanglement in Afghanistan weren’t already enough, the Afghanistan war (Operation Enduring Freedom) now has its own version of the My Lai massacre. The only surprise...

Published 04-02-2012 5:25 PM by Charles Krakoff

Filed under: Obama, GEMs, Charles Krakoff, Nixon, Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Indochina, Phnom Penh, NATO, Kabul, George W. Bush, Taliban, Saigon

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North Korea: Not Quite Ready for Prime Time

The Entrepreneurial State, or, You Didn’t Build That

Trade Agreements and Cultural Exceptions: A Plea for Tolerance

U. S. Farm Policy 2013: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

It’s Broke, Now Fix It: Patent Protection and Regulatory Capture in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Afghanistan: A Decade of Progress and Hope?

Dealing with Nigeria’s Jihadist Threat

The Gods Must Be Angry: Olympics to Drop Wrestling

Arming the Syrian Rebels Would Be a Terrible Mistake

Like a Ton of BRICS: Let’s Drop the Catchy Emerging Markets Acronymns

François Hollande’s African Adventure: The End of Françafrique?

Egypt’s Soft Coup d’Etat

Good Money After Bad: Why Government Should Not Fund Private Businesses

Who Should Lead the World Bank

Déjà Vu All Over Again: Afghanistan Reprises the Indochina War