Frontier Markets have gone mainstream over the past decade as international investors have backed countries such as Vietnam, Kazakhstan and Pakistan. But there are other…
Attention is increasingly turning to large fast growing economies like Pakistan, Vietnam, Iran, Egypt, Nigeria and Bangladesh. These countries have big populations, income levels typically…
I have a regular Eastern Approaches for Frontera News, a website which is increasingly the go to place for Emerging/Frontier markets news and analysis. Below…
Who sets petrol prices, decides the thickness of plastic bags, the length of roads and the size of Disneyland Shanghai? In China these key decisions…
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…
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…
Potential – this is a much overused word in frontier market investing, but it neatly sums up Cuba’s business prospects. Thanks to recent detente with…
After 30 years of sitting on the side lines, the former economic star of western Asia is set to make a major comeback if as…
Perhaps the biggest obstacle facing firms in emerging markets is a lack of capital to grow, there are thousands and thousands…
This year’s dramatic drop in the price of oil once again put the world’s most important commodity in the spotlight. Oil’s lower price is deemed to be undermining Iran,…