Latin America: A history of Economic Potential and Disappointment, and a Hope for Future Prosperity. Latin America and the Caribbean remain a puzzle. The region has withstood well recent world events; it has generally succeeded in achieving low inflation and a reasonable external position. However, despite its great human and natural resources, the region has…
As a part of the work behind EMF’s latest book, The Belt and Road Initiative & Global 2030 Sustainability, a series of studies covering 11 countries in Africa, Central Asia, and Asia were commissioned. Each of these background studies provided critical research that informed the book. We will be releasing a number of these papers…
Climate Funds: Time to Clean Up is a recent paper by Philippe Le Houerou, the Co-Chairman of the Eurasia Emerging Markets Forum and former CEO of IFC, with help from Ieva Vilkelyte, a Research Associate at Centennial Group International. The study examines the plethora of green-climate funds created over the last 30 years to finance climate-related projects and…
On January 25th, in a hybrid format, EMF held a book launch seminar in DC on its latest book: The Belt and Road Initiative & Global 2030 Sustainability. The book discusses the progress of the BRI as it enters its tenth year after being launched in 2013 and becoming by far the biggest bilateral development assistance…
On the sidelines of the 5th Lisbon Conference, Harinder Kohli had the pleasure of speaking with Mário Rui Cardoso from RPT about the ten global megatrends from Envisioning 2060: Opportunities and Risks for Emerging Market.
Today, Emerging Markets Forum released a new report entitled ‘World Economy after the Pandemic.’ This paper focuses on recent developments in the World economy, presenting scenarios for the global economy emerging from the COVID pandemic and through 2060, with the primary focus on Emerging and Developing Economies (EMDEs).
This book takes a long-term perspective of economic and social outlook of the world to 2050. Its main focus is on the emerging and developing economies of today. But given the increasing interconnectedness of our world, it inevitably considers the likely evolution of the world economy as a whole. Given its long-term perspective, the book…
Africa 2050 is now published by Oxford University Press and is available on Amazon. The book is co-edited by Theodore H. Ahlers, Hiroshi Kato, Harinder S. Kohli, Callisto Madavo and Anil Sood. Africa 2050 highlights that the continent is at a critical turning point—what its leaders do today will determine where it will be socially and economically in 2050 and whether the…
India’s recent performance in agriculture has been favorable, with agricultural production growing over the past 30 years. Yet there is widespread consensus that, relative to the rest of the economy, agriculture is lagging and that it can and must do much better to support India’s overall high economic growth and dynamism. This book explores the…
September 2008 saw the United States financial system at the edge of collapse, with the tightly integrated global financial system following close behind. But that was only a symptom of the problems that generated the ensuing crisis. The more fundamental cause lay in some of the practices that had developed in many of the major…
This book determines what Asia as a whole is capable of achieving by the year 2050, and the related policies and reforms that are required to reach its development potential. Asia is in the midst of a truly historic transformation. If it continues to grow on its recent trajectory, it could, by 2050, account…
This book is a compilation of selected writings of DrVenkataraman Sundararajan (1945-2010), an international policy maker who played a significant role in the development of the regulatory and supervisory frameworks and policy for Islamic finance. Spanning more than a decade of his thoughts on Islamic finance, this book provides both basic and advanced knowledge of…
This book brings together a series of background papers that were prepared for the First Eurasian Emerging Markets Forum, held in Thun, Switzerland, in January 2010. The papers cover a broad range of issues relevant to the diverse and dynamic group of countries situated on the Eurasian super-continent. Although the papers cover subjects and themes…
This book presents a long term vision of Latin American society and economies, within which current policy debates and actions must be anchored. It presents a set of multigenerational issues that must be tackled in order for countries in the region to reduce inequities, as well as raise their economic growth rates. The authors provide…
This book is based on papers presented and discussions held at a high-level regional workshop organized by the Asian Development Bank in January 2010 to discuss the impact of the global economic and financial crisis on developing Asia. It provides a clear and thought-provoking analysis of the global economic crisis from the perspective of 19…
This book provides a perspective on where India could be in the year 2039, if it maintains the economic growth rates it has experienced recently. In addition to emphasizing the virtuous cycle between growth and poverty reduction, the book outlines the salient challenges that India must overcome to achieve this end. These challenges include: The…
