In 2003 at the World Telecom Conference in Barcelona Huawei missed out on a place in the conference and set up an improvised tent on a nearby beach making the unknown company a bit of a joke among the other… Read More ›
Emerging markets
The People’s Bank of China
SAFE (the State Administration for Foreign Exchange) is a rather obscure state bureaucracy which lies behind one of the biggest economic stories of our time, namely the size and power of Chinese foreign exchange reserves. SAFE holds these reserves as… Read More ›
The Top Ten Articles of 2015
2015 has been a fantastic year for the site, covering everything from China’s new Silk Road strategy to many different Frontier Markets in Asia and Africa. Below I list and review the ten most read articles published this year. Enjoy… Read More ›
Power behind the throne? China Development Bank’s global influence
Few banks exert as much power and influence across the globe as the China Development Bank. Although it is not China’s biggest bank, when it comes to overseas operations it is in a league of its own – with USD… Read More ›
Will lower Chinese growth cut its outbound investment flows?
The last couple of months has seen a flurry of attention around the Chinese economy and its perceived weaknesses, the fall of an overpriced stock market and the government’s subsequent expensive and misguided attempts to prop the market up have… Read More ›
Emergo Partners: Polishing the rough diamonds of emerging markets
Perhaps the biggest obstacle facing firms in emerging markets is a lack of capital to grow, there are thousands and thousands of ventures with revenues that run into millions of dollars a year which remain off… Read More ›
Why are Chinese companies going abroad?
We know Chinese firms are expanding overseas at an unprecedented rate, but what is driving them them to do so? It is well established that Chinese companies are investing abroad in ever greater numbers, but many would question the reasoning… Read More ›
The Top Five Articles of 2014
2014 has been a fantastic year for Frontier Market Strategy, the site has gone from strength to strength and the range and depth of articles has increased dramatically. Next year should prove to be even more exciting, I have new… Read More ›
Bargaining with a Rising India: Lessons from the Mahabharata
This article was originally published on the LSE Review of Books. The need to negotiate effectively with India is only growing as its power rises, and in the literature on international negotiation experimental studies point to specific behavioural characteristics… Read More ›
Crisis and Opportunity: Distressed Assets in Frontier Markets
We can be guaranteed one thing when doing business in frontier markets and that is that things will go wrong; whether it be management failures, political unrest leading to economic meltdown or simply shifts in demand and changes in… Read More ›
