Thailand/Philippines’ Second Half Second Guessing
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After double-digit gains through July to lead ASEAN, Thailand and the Philippines stock markets entered the second half with slower ...
Blended Finance’s Poor Country Swirl
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Amid the ‘billions to trillions” hype over combining official and private finance to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals for ...
Myanmar’s Complex Military-Industrial Cudgel
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The United Nations Human Rights Council, charged last year with investigating the Myanmar army’s (Tatmadaw) business empire as the biggest ...
Central America’s Interrupted Integration Intent
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The arrival of hundreds of thousands monthly into the US and Mexico from the Northern Triangle of El Salvador, Guatemala, ...
Frontier Exchanges’ Frayed Leading Edge
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Frontier equity markets up 11% on the MSCI Index pulled ahead of the core’s 7.5% advance through July after prolonged ...
Debt Flows’ Cascading Crimp
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Emerging market local and hard currency debt flows over $50 billion continued to swamp negative equity ones into August, and ...
Asia’s Isolated Islamic Finance Flashes
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Indonesia and Malaysia stock markets lagged on the Morgan Stanley Capital International index through July, with the former up 7%, ...
The Second Half’s Investment Shakeup Shiver
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In the first half of the year emerging market debt and equity asset classes were up low to high single ...
Asia’s Fraught Frontier Framing
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Through the first half Vietnam and Kazakhstan led Asian frontier stock markets on the Morgan Stanley Capital International Index with ...
Mexico’s Misplaced Missionary Zeal
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Mexican stocks lagged peers with a MSCI Index outcome through July, one year after President AMLO was inaugurated, after the ...