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Yearly Archives: 2012

In Caracas, New Year is off. What of the transition?

Dec 31, 2012 7:10pm by Jonathan Wheatley
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ChavezThe people of Venezuela have been asked to pray for the life of President Hugo Chávez after Nicolas Maduro, vice president, revealed that the socialist leader was suffering fresh complications after undergoing cancer surgery in Cuba on December 11.

A New Year’s concert planned for Monday evening was cancelled by the government as speculation about Chávez’s health reached boiling point. “If you are happy with Chávez’s state of health, you are not my adversary, you are my enemy” was one typical comment on Twitter. Continue reading »

Tags: Posted in LatAm, Venezuela |

Winners and losers of 2012: the beyondbrics emerging markets awards

Dec 31, 2012 4:56pm by Andrew Bowman
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If 2012 for emerging markets could be summed up in a few words, they would probably be “the search for yield”.

That was a change from 2011, when the keynote was “the flight to safety”: market panic drove investors away from risky EM assets and into the safest possible developed market ones. But in 2012, as growth in developed economies continued to stagnate and real yields on some AAA sovereign debt turned negative, investors started looking further afield. With healthier public balance sheets and fast growing economies behind them, EM government bonds saw a surge of inflows.

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Tags: , , , Posted in Global |

2012 in review: the most read beyondbrics posts of the year

Dec 31, 2012 3:17pm by beyondbrics
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After charts of the year and guest posts of the year, here is a list of the 15 most clicked on beyondbrics posts of 2012.

In reverse order… Continue reading »

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Guest post: the IFC, poverty and the private sector

Dec 31, 2012 2:03pm by beyondbrics
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Jin-Yong Cai, IFCBy Jin-Yong Cai of the International Finance Corporation

Four years after the global financial crisis struck, the world still faces major economic challenges. Shocks from Europe, Asia or the US could undermine recoveries in many developing countries, hurting the poor the most. Continue reading »

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New York Headlines

Dec 31, 2012 11:45am by beyondbrics
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* China’s economy ends year on high note

* Egypt’s Mursi sees pound stabilising “within days”

* Emerging stocks climb for sixth day on China output

* Chinese a step closer to Africa mine deal Continue reading »

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Brazil’s GDP: slower and ever slower

Dec 31, 2012 11:22am by Jonathan Wheatley
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The last day of the year seems rather late to be revising your forecasts for 2012 – but that is what economists surveyed by Brazil’s central bank have done. And it’s a dismal way to ring out the old and ring in the new: economic growth in 2012 was less than 1 per cent, they reckon. Continue reading »

Tags: , Posted in Brazil, LatAm |

Further reading: ending on a high

Dec 31, 2012 10:03am by beyondbrics
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Monday’s picks from the beyonbrics team: China’s economy ends the year on a high; Dubai has gone from bust to boom and wants you to know it; the growth of the Chinese and Indian middle classes presents massive opportunities for agricultural investors; the last line of defence for the Egyptian pound; and what’s Huawei up to in Iran? Continue reading »

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2012 in review: charts of the year

Dec 31, 2012 8:27am by beyondbrics
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A year in charts, as selected by you, the beyondbrics readers. The themes of the year are India, China, GDP and, above all, oil. Continue reading »

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London headlines

Dec 31, 2012 5:29am by beyondbrics
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* Asian stocks slip

* China’s economy ends year on high note

* South Korean inflation slows despite recovery

* Peru raising reserve requirements

* Bolivia awards oil and gas concessions

* UAE to limit expat mortgages

* Hostages rescued after Brazil factory heist

* South Korea parliament to approve budget

* Piramal in talks for TPG’s Shriram stake Continue reading »

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The week ahead, December 31 – January 4

Dec 30, 2012 12:00pm by beyondbrics
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Lots of PMI indicators to kick off 2013, as well as Brazil and South Africa trade data; plus the WTO chief shortlist is announced. See the full list after the break. Continue reading »

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The weekender, December 29

Dec 29, 2012 6:00am by Rob Minto
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Miss anything? Here’s the week in emerging markets as seen on beyondbrics, featuring our top stories, a few things we have learnt, and the week in a chart – this week, the Egyptian pound. Continue reading »

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West Africa: new airlines look to spread their wings

Dec 28, 2012 6:30pm by Xan Rice
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Welcome to the new hub

Start-up airlines have revolutionised air travel in Ghana over the past 18 months. Fares on domestic routes have fallen by up to 75 per cent. Passenger numbers on the main route from the capital Accra to the second city Kumasi have increased fivefold.

Now, two of the new domestic carriers are hoping to spread their wings throughout west Africa, where economies are growing fast but the aviation networks remain so poor that some experts call it “the last frontier” of air travel. Continue reading »

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China’s internet freedom laws: keeping an eye on the youth

Dec 28, 2012 4:50pm by Andrew Bowman
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The Chinese government announced on Friday new laws which will require every internet user in China to register with service providers using their full name.

China already expends a great deal of effort restricting what its citizens can and cannot see while browsing online, but despite blocks on foreign websites and close monitoring of online activity, many websites, and in particular social media sites, have posed challenges to the authorities. Continue reading »

Tags: , Posted in Asia, China |

Warsaw SE: shopping centre IPO pop masks liquidity problems

Dec 28, 2012 3:29pm by Jan Cienski
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At first glance, Friday’s stock market launch of Czerwona Torebka – a Polish shopping centre operator – was good news, with the stock jumping by more than 50 per cent on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.

But a closer looks reveals a more troubling story which shows some of the problems that have been besetting the WSE this year. Continue reading »

Tags: , , Posted in Europe, Poland |

Turkey trade figures: good on the surface, worrying beneath

Dec 28, 2012 3:07pm by David O'Byrne
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Given the importance of manufactured exports to the Turkish economy and long term worries over the country’s trade imbalance and current account deficit, Turkey’s November trade figures released on Friday could be considered to be a something of a success.

After all a 24.8 per cent increase in exports and a 5.5 per cent narrowing of the trade gap from would be a welcome result for any European economy. For Turkey however, the devil is very much in the detail, with a number of seasonal and other factors making the rise in exports (from $11.08bn to $13.83bn) and the fall in the trade gap (from 7.57bn to $7.16bn) look more favourable than normal. Continue reading »

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