Tag Archives: Emerging economies

New GIBS article: The potential of crowdfunding to promote business in the context of an emerging economy by Alet Erasmus, Geoffrey Tocknell and Flip Schutte

Crowdfunding has the potential to change the historic standards of the financial services industry and reduce gaps between supply and demand economics. Over the past ten years, it has received increasing attention. However, the potential that crowdfunding holds in less fortunate economic contexts where SMEs are probably needed the most has not yet attracted the attention that it deserves. Acknowledging the influence of knowledge […]
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Six tips for working with emerging market data according to Euromonitor (Euromonitor)

A recent Euromonitor article, written by Sarah Boumphrey and Ramune Verikaite, outlines six tips for working with emerging market data.  Euromonitor, themselves, follow these tips to ensure the quality of their data. Their tips are: Question quality even from government sources. Think proxies to help gain insight if quality data is not available. Be wary […]
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Access to banking services is spreading throughout the developing world

By: The Data Team May 7, 2018 Source: https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2018/05/daily-chart-3

Five things emerging economies can do to attract the best talent

By: Mauro F. Guillén December  08, 2017 Source: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/12/emerging-market-companies-multinational-talent-china-india-attract Emerging market companies need talent to be competitive in the global marketplace. They have made much progress in attracting it. Barely a decade ago, most young, bright graduates in China and India preferred to work for Western companies. These companies paid better and offered more opportunities for professional […]
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Another one of our best theses for 2016 was investment strategies for OECD and BRICS currencies

By: Blomeyer, Gregg Source: http://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/59882 Abstract: In this paper a graphical time-series approach was used to analyse style-based investment strategies for currencies. The styles investigated included momentum, volatility and value, and particular focus was given to understanding whether differences exist in the results between the currencies of developed versus emerging countries. The results showed that differences between […]
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