Emerging markets megatrends

Abstract

This book provides an assessment of the megatrends that are reshaping the emerging marketslandscape. With developing countries already accounting for 40% of world GDP, emergingmarkets consumption growth will be an increasingly important growth engine for the worldeconomy over the next two decades. However, emerging markets in many parts of Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America are still facing tremendous economic challenges such aspoverty, inequality, weak governance and inadequate infrastructure. The developed nationsare no longer insulated from the economic shockwaves impacting developing countries, asglobalisation and economic integration have also amplified the transmission effects to the Westthrough immigration flows, cross-border crime and the proliferation of international terrorism. Emerging Markets Megatrends is an essential read for government policymakers, corporateexecutives, international investors and analysts wishing to understand more about the economicdrivers and long-term outlook for emerging markets.