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Forum to Promote Trade and Investment Relations Latam-India
The potential of India for Latinamerican exports and investment opportunities was underscored during the presentation of a report “India and Latin America and the Caribbean, opportunities and challenges in trade and investment relations” sponsored by the UN Economic Commission for
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Forbes: Brazil’s Booming Economy Is Creating 19 ‘Millionaires’ Every Day
Brazil has been adding 19 ‘millionaires’ per day since 2007 — and that statistic will likely be repeated over the next three years as Latin America’s economic super-power continues to deliver stellar GDP growth and consumption rates, according to bankers.
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CFI Top 25 Most Powerful Individuals in Emerging Markets 2012
Few will argue about Vladimir Putin being the most powerful man in emerging markets this year. On the back of his long term track record of domestic economic success and foreign policy strengths, he will soon be re-elected as President
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CFI Top 40 Billionaires in Emerging Markets 2012
The list is dominated by billionaires from the BRIC economies (65% out of the total number of billionaires). Of these, the Russian (and one Ukrainian) makes up more than half of the billionaires from BRIC economies and 38% of the
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Indonesia To Top “Happy Index”
Indonesian are the world’s most content people according to new research. Emerging markets and half of the BRIC economies (represented by India 2nd, and Brazil 4th) are top 4 in the recently published well-being or “Happiness” ranking. Mexico came 3rd.
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Brazilian Blowout Legally Labeled Carcinogenic … Will It Matter?
Amy Westervelt, Forbes (30/01/12): Last year women’s magazines and pop culture blogs were afire with the news that the popular Brazilian Blowout–an expensive salon treatment that promises to smooth and straighten hair for up to six months–released formaldehyde, a known
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch on LatAm: Cutting Your Way Down
Latin America is also facing downward pressure on growth, and in our LatAm Macro Weekly (“2012- Keep it up, China, please!”) we believe activity is likely to slow to 3.3% from 4.1% in 2011. We also forecast a deceleration in
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BRIC Economies
The BRIC countries label refers to a select group of four large, developing countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China). The four BRIC countries are distinguished from a host of other promising emerging markets by their demographic and economic potential to
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2012 CFI Top 100 Emerging Markets Companies’ Nominations
The 2011 CFI Top 100 Emerging Market Companies were compiled by using the nominations and the votes from CFI’s subscriber base and in addition by the judges on the editing board. The criteria included financial performance, such as sales and
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch on Brazil: Detailing the Labor Market Slowdown
Labor markets are finally cooling down in Brazil, despite the better than expected unemployment rate for October released by the IBGE last week. We analyze different aspects of this deceleration, such as disparities among sectors and regions. We also explore
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