EMI at Work
Emerging Market Currency Downfall and its Effect on Emerging Economies
by Nicolas Clavijo Emerging market currencies are rapidly falling due to a combination of internal pressures and the end of post-crisis stimulus measures implemented by the central banks in advanced […]
Brazil: An Amazing Taste of South America
by Bright Botchway, MBA ’19 “Obrigado” and football facts were the two main things I armed myself with as I set off for Brazil from Paris to join my colleagues […]
Southeast Asia and its startup economy
by Audi Prabowo , MBA ’18 Home to more than 650 million people spread across 11 countries, Southeast Asia has seen an uptick in trade since the end of the […]
Juan Valdez: An Emerging Multinational
by Nicholas Deaton, Anish Kumar, Nicholas Quigley, Cornell Tech MBA ’18 Juan Valdez Cafe can trace its roots back to December 12, 2002, when the Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de […]
A Closer Look at China
by James Tseng, AMBA ’18 China’s nominal GDP surpassed that of Japan in 2010, becoming the second largest economy in the world. In 2017, China’s annual GDP growth rate surpassed […]
EMI celebrates the work of Cornell Tech Fellows at EMI Alumni Day
On April 27th, 2018 the Emerging Markets Institute (EMI) will host the first EMI Alumni Day at the Tata Innovation Center at Cornell Tech. The event serves to celebrate the […]
Where to Play and How to Win: How Megatrends and Country Contexts Govern Strategy in Emerging Markets
By Crosby Fish MBA ’18, Navdeep Singh Cornell Tech MBA, and James Godbout MBA ’18 The subject of emerging markets can be so broad and complex that it is sometimes […]
Will Venezuela’s New ‘Petro’ Cryptocurrency Help Its Economy?
by Carlos Serquen, MBA ’18 Venezuela will Create New ‘Petro’ Cryptocurrency The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, announced the creation of a Venezuelan cryptocurrency called the “Petro.” He mentioned that […]
Progressing Towards an Equal and Growing Latin America
by Brian Balduzzi, MBA ’18 Introduction Tax experts have long proposed using taxation to alleviate inequality and redistribute income within developing countries (Lustig, 2016). Recent scholarship suggests that adopting and […]
Ghana and its Multinationals: Reigniting the Spark
by Farouk Appiedu, MBA ’17 With a population of 28.2 million, Ghana is considered one of the world’s fastest-growing economies—if not the fastest growing economy in Africa in 2018[1] — […]