This document discusses stages of economic development and income thresholds used to classify countries. It makes two key observations. First, it questions the lack of clarity and rationale for the income thresholds used by organizations like the UN, World Bank and IMF to distinguish between developing and developed countries. As an alternative, it proposes letting data determine the thresholds. Second, it argues that a trichotomous classification system with three categories of development may better capture countries in transition phases between developing and developed. The document also lists several financial and economic hotspots from 2010-2011.
Ever accelerating pace of globalization has opened a window of opportunity for innovative entrepreneurs to jump from spring board of their locally retained markets into promise lands of globally acclaimed high ranking business heavens. The other name of these business heavens is Emerging Markets. It is now a known fact that the growth advantage in emerging markets, if other things remain the same, is expected to translate into 62% of global growth. Multinationals expect about 70 percent of the world’s growth over the next few years to come from emerging markets, with 40 percent emanating from just two countries: China and India. In addition to growth rate advantage, expanding middle-class consumer base, impressive Doing Business regulatory reforms, more than half of $55 billion of global middle-class spending will come from Asia Pacific.
Ever accelerating pace of globalization has opened a window of opportunity for innovative entrepreneurs to jump from spring board of their locally retained markets into promise lands of globally acclaimed high ranking business heavens. The other name of these business heavens is Emerging Markets. It is now a known fact that the growth advantage in emerging markets, if other things remain the same, is expected to translate into 62% of global growth. Multinationals expect about 70 percent of the world’s growth over the next few years to come from emerging markets, with 40 percent emanating from just two countries: China and India. In addition to growth rate advantage, expanding middle-class consumer base, impressive Doing Business regulatory reforms, more than half of $55 billion of global middle-class spending will come from Asia Pacific.
The ground realities demand caution in weighing the perceptions.
É com exclusividade que disponibilizamos para os associados da CoreNet Global Brasil e para os membros do grupo da CoreNet Global Brasil no linkedin o “Now Online: 2011 State-of-the-Industry Report”.
This document summarizes a presentation given by Venkatesh Rao on whether investors matter for innovation. Some key points made:
- Investors play an indispensable role in financing innovation according to Schumpeter's definition of capitalism.
- There are different types of "smart money" and "dumb money" that matter at different times, places, and industries.
- For true venture capital markets to exist, certain necessary conditions around market access, rule of law, available talent, and support systems must be present.
- Local innovation may be more important than previously thought due to the geographic constraints of talent, markets, and knowledge spill overs.
- Best practices in venture capital are openly discussed in
This document provides an overview of business incubation programs in developing countries. It discusses the concept of business incubation and different incubation models, including university incubators, virtual incubators, and dot-com incubators. It also describes support that has been provided to incubator initiatives in developing countries from multilateral organizations like the World Bank and IFC, as well as national programs in countries like Brazil and China. Finally, it discusses lessons learned about best practices for incubator creation, management, and measuring their impact.
The document discusses China's transformation and the merits of procurement from China. It provides an overview of The Beijing Axis, a China-focused advisory firm, and its synergistic businesses in commodities, capital, procurement, and strategy. The Beijing Axis has successfully worked with many international and Chinese companies, with a focus on mining, resources, industrial engineering and other sectors. It also operates across China and helps firms navigate opportunities in unfamiliar markets.
This document discusses the importance and opportunities of international entrepreneurship from a global perspective. It begins by noting how globalization has increased opportunities for international business ventures as markets become more integrated. It then provides examples of companies producing goods internationally. The document emphasizes that international entrepreneurship combines aspects of business with other disciplines like culture and geography. It states international entrepreneurship involves conducting business across national borders in ways such as exporting, licensing, or advertising abroad. The key difference between international and domestic entrepreneurship is the greater complexity of international decisions due to uncontrollable economic, political, cultural and technological factors across countries.
Ever accelerating pace of globalization has opened a window of opportunity for innovative entrepreneurs to jump from spring board of their locally retained markets into promise lands of globally acclaimed high ranking business heavens. The other name of these business heavens is Emerging Markets. It is now a known fact that the growth advantage in emerging markets, if other things remain the same, is expected to translate into 62% of global growth. Multinationals expect about 70 percent of the world’s growth over the next few years to come from emerging markets, with 40 percent emanating from just two countries: China and India. In addition to growth rate advantage, expanding middle-class consumer base, impressive Doing Business regulatory reforms, more than half of $55 billion of global middle-class spending will come from Asia Pacific.
Ever accelerating pace of globalization has opened a window of opportunity for innovative entrepreneurs to jump from spring board of their locally retained markets into promise lands of globally acclaimed high ranking business heavens. The other name of these business heavens is Emerging Markets. It is now a known fact that the growth advantage in emerging markets, if other things remain the same, is expected to translate into 62% of global growth. Multinationals expect about 70 percent of the world’s growth over the next few years to come from emerging markets, with 40 percent emanating from just two countries: China and India. In addition to growth rate advantage, expanding middle-class consumer base, impressive Doing Business regulatory reforms, more than half of $55 billion of global middle-class spending will come from Asia Pacific.
The ground realities demand caution in weighing the perceptions.
É com exclusividade que disponibilizamos para os associados da CoreNet Global Brasil e para os membros do grupo da CoreNet Global Brasil no linkedin o “Now Online: 2011 State-of-the-Industry Report”.
This document summarizes a presentation given by Venkatesh Rao on whether investors matter for innovation. Some key points made:
- Investors play an indispensable role in financing innovation according to Schumpeter's definition of capitalism.
- There are different types of "smart money" and "dumb money" that matter at different times, places, and industries.
- For true venture capital markets to exist, certain necessary conditions around market access, rule of law, available talent, and support systems must be present.
- Local innovation may be more important than previously thought due to the geographic constraints of talent, markets, and knowledge spill overs.
- Best practices in venture capital are openly discussed in
This document provides an overview of business incubation programs in developing countries. It discusses the concept of business incubation and different incubation models, including university incubators, virtual incubators, and dot-com incubators. It also describes support that has been provided to incubator initiatives in developing countries from multilateral organizations like the World Bank and IFC, as well as national programs in countries like Brazil and China. Finally, it discusses lessons learned about best practices for incubator creation, management, and measuring their impact.
The document discusses China's transformation and the merits of procurement from China. It provides an overview of The Beijing Axis, a China-focused advisory firm, and its synergistic businesses in commodities, capital, procurement, and strategy. The Beijing Axis has successfully worked with many international and Chinese companies, with a focus on mining, resources, industrial engineering and other sectors. It also operates across China and helps firms navigate opportunities in unfamiliar markets.
This document discusses the importance and opportunities of international entrepreneurship from a global perspective. It begins by noting how globalization has increased opportunities for international business ventures as markets become more integrated. It then provides examples of companies producing goods internationally. The document emphasizes that international entrepreneurship combines aspects of business with other disciplines like culture and geography. It states international entrepreneurship involves conducting business across national borders in ways such as exporting, licensing, or advertising abroad. The key difference between international and domestic entrepreneurship is the greater complexity of international decisions due to uncontrollable economic, political, cultural and technological factors across countries.
Overcoming Barriers to Caribbean Innovation – Towards a Restructuring of the ...cgrowth
The document discusses barriers to innovation in the Caribbean and proposes ways to overcome them. It begins by outlining the link between innovation, productivity, competitiveness and prosperity. It then notes that the Caribbean economy has been trapped in low growth due to a lack of innovation. Despite foreign investment, firm productivity and competitiveness rankings have declined. The document proposes that the Caribbean needs to shift from resource-based to innovation-based economies. It recommends unleashing human talent potential through creativity training and supportive work environments. Bringing together government, businesses and academia in a "triple helix" model is suggested to build consensus on fostering innovation.
The document discusses factors that are common among successful innovation hubs. It identifies that establishing fundamentals like infrastructure and governance are essential prerequisites. Innovation hubs must then develop a specific sector focus to concentrate resources. Successful hubs historically followed paths of large government investments, attracting established companies, or capitalizing on technical advances through a talent base. As hubs mature, they must broaden their sectors and attract global talent to sustain long-term growth. The availability of a specialized talent pool is the single most important factor for driving innovation across all sectors.
The document discusses the importance of national innovation ecosystems for sustainable development. It defines the old economy as driven by inputs like labor, capital and resources, while the new economy is knowledge-based and driven by innovation. A national innovation ecosystem consists of factors that deepen knowledge intensity like intellectual capital, interaction, incentives and institutions. It also discusses how countries can progress through different stages from imitation to innovation leadership. Developing strong national innovation ecosystems is important for countries to compete in the global new economy and achieve increasing returns through innovation.
Todays Innovation, Tomorrows Prosperity November 2010Colin McKillop
This report discusses Ontario's prosperity and productivity gaps compared to international peers. It finds that Ontario lags behind in productivity, which accounts for most of the prosperity gap. Innovation is highlighted as imperative for Ontario's prosperity. The report sets a 2020 agenda to close these gaps through attitudes that encourage innovation, investments in education and technology, and maintaining tax changes that motivate innovation.
Future trends in technology business incubation_Rustam Lalkaka_2007Vasily Ryzhonkov
1) The keynote discusses future trends in technology business incubation, focusing on how incubation can help address global issues of poverty, unemployment, and development.
2) It notes that half of the world's business incubators are located in developing countries, but many are concentrated in only a few nations. Emerging models emphasize public-private partnerships and serving low-income populations.
3) Looking ahead, the keynote predicts convergence of smart incubation services, stronger university links, more emphasis on social innovation, and the need to prepare developing economies for globalization through business incubation.
Silicon Valley has established itself as the leading global innovation ecosystem due to key factors such as transparency in venture capitalism funding, support from top universities, and a skilled workforce culture. However, strict immigration laws and high housing costs present challenges. While venture capital and university partnerships remain strengths, addressing foreign talent restrictions and infrastructure sustainability will help Silicon Valley maintain its edge in the face of global competition.
Smoopeds aims to deliver healthy smoothies to busy customers. They will offer an array of smoothie flavors containing vitamins and caffeine. Their target customers are people seeking a quick, healthy breakfast or snack. Smoopeds sees an opportunity in the growing healthy convenience food market and plans to beat competitors to market expansion. They will use mopeds to deliver smoothies and employ social media marketing. Initial funding will be sought to cover startup costs and open the first location over the next year and a half.
O documento discute sobre pilha e heap, variáveis primitivas e de referência, literais, atribuições, escopo de variáveis, wrappers, autoboxing, sobrecarga, garbage collector. As principais informações são: 1) Variáveis de instância e objetos ficam no heap, variáveis locais na pilha; 2) Variáveis primitivas armazenam valores diretamente, enquanto referências armazenam endereços de objetos no heap; 3) Wrappers permitem usar primitivos como objetos.
Este documento presenta la segunda parte de un proyecto de seminario de informática. Contiene dos presentaciones en PowerPoint sobre temas como publicar páginas web, mostrar archivos de video y flash, y combinar correspondencia. La otra presentación cubre conceptos de virus informáticos como Spim, Ransomware y Spyware, y cómo crear un blog personal y videos en MovieMaker. El documento concluye que es útil conocer sobre estos temas de seguridad informática y herramientas multimedia.
The document discusses troubleshooting BGP routing issues using Juniper examples. It begins by outlining some caveats and assumptions. Then it covers topics like originating routes, filtering routes, summarizing routes, and next hop problems. Examples are provided using show commands on Juniper routers to verify routes are being advertised and received correctly. Troubleshooting steps like modifying routing policies are demonstrated to resolve issues like more specific routes being advertised or next hop reachability problems.
CIPA - Comissão Interna de Prevenção de AcidentesGui Souza A
Este documento descreve as responsabilidades e funcionamento da Comissão Interna de Prevenção de Acidentes (CIPA) em empresas. A CIPA tem como objetivo visitar locais de trabalho e garantir a saúde e segurança dos trabalhadores, além de investigar acidentes e doenças ocupacionais. A CIPA é composta por representantes dos trabalhadores e empregadores e realiza reuniões periódicas para discutir questões de segurança. O processo eleitoral para escolha dos membros da CIPA também é detalhado.
Ever accelerating pace of globalization has opened a window of opportunity for innovative entrepreneurs to jump from spring board of their locally retained markets into promise lands of globally acclaimed high ranking business heavens. The other name of these business heavens is Emerging Markets. It is now a known fact that the growth advantage in emerging markets, if other things remain the same, is expected to translate into 62% of global growth. Multinationals expect about 70 percent of the world’s growth over the next few years to come from emerging markets, with 40 percent emanating from just two countries: China and India. In addition to growth rate advantage, expanding middle-class consumer base, impressive Doing Business regulatory reforms, more than half of $55 billion of global middle-class spending will come from Asia Pacific.
Emerging markets are expected to drive the majority of global growth in the coming years. Their growth advantage stems from expanding middle classes, regulatory reforms improving the ease of doing business, and an emphasis on innovation. However, unemployment and income inequality pose risks and must be addressed to ensure stability. Entrepreneurs and financial institutions could help by focusing on literacy, jobs, and reducing social and economic disparities through an independent initiative promoting sustainable development.
The document discusses how international businesses are increasingly engaged in competition and conflicts over finite natural resources as consumption rises globally. It notes that China in particular has aggressively acquired resources in places like the Middle East and Africa. This resource grab has geopolitical implications and risks escalating into conflicts if not addressed through cooperation between nations. International businesses are now actively partnering with their home governments in the global pursuit of resources.
The document provides an overview of "The Breakthrough Forecast", which identifies 14 emerging technology trends or "Sweet Spots" that are expected to significantly impact markets and the global economy by 2025. It analyzes these trends across 10 critical economic sectors and forecasts that they will create trillions of dollars in new market value as businesses adapt to address sustainability challenges. The forecast is intended to help leaders understand and influence the profound economic and business model transitions underway through this "Breakthrough Decade".
Looking beyond the obvious - Globalization and new opportunities for growthEY
The changing face of globalization will have a profound impact on the business landscape. A constant challenge for business leaders is to anticipate and interpret how globalization is changing, while understanding the opportunities and risks it creates. Although there may be little they can do to change global demographic shifts or capital flows, business leaders can react effectively to the forces of globalization or, even better, anticipate them to their advantage.
Looking beyond the obvious: globalization and new opportunities for growth, looks at the most important elements of globalization for business. Drawing on three sources of research, including Ernst & Young’s 2012 Globalization Index, we explore the trends and issues business leaders must consider to move ahead.
In this uncertain world, companies will need to look for growth in new ways and from new places. The businesses that will ride the next wave of economic growth will be those that understand the significance of globalization and tailor their strategies accordingly.
www.ey.com/globalization
Making India a global hub an Artical writen by Raghuram G RajanSubin Suresh
this ia the study on how India can become a global hub what measures it is required to be taken for becoming a global hub. major pillars, India has to focus on.
This document discusses the globalization of Chinese enterprises. Some key points:
- Globalization has become necessary for Chinese enterprises as China integrates further into the global economy and a multi-polar world emerges with new opportunities for emerging market multinationals.
- For Chinese companies to develop further, they must globalize their operations beyond China's borders. This involves gradually becoming more reliant on overseas markets and improving global operations management.
- Few Chinese enterprises have reached an advanced stage of truly global operations unbound by national borders. Most are in the initial or intermediate stages of some global market interaction or optimizing their value chains for exports. However, since the 2008 financial crisis, Chinese firms have accelerated their globalization
Dan Herman GKWCC On innovation we're falling behind 1.20.2016danxherman
Canada is falling behind globally in innovation according to several indices. The DEEP Centre examines how governments and businesses can foster innovation-driven growth. Their research focuses on understanding entrepreneurship in the global economy and how to build competitive companies through investments in technology, capital and talent. While Canada performs well in areas like R&D inputs and number of accelerators/incubators, its productivity growth and number of high-growth export-focused SMEs lag peers. The billion-dollar firm category saw most growth in energy, retail and construction, while knowledge sectors saw no net increase. To improve, Canada must scale growth companies through tax policy, attract talent via immigration reform, and incentivize risk-taking through business culture.
Overcoming Barriers to Caribbean Innovation – Towards a Restructuring of the ...cgrowth
The document discusses barriers to innovation in the Caribbean and proposes ways to overcome them. It begins by outlining the link between innovation, productivity, competitiveness and prosperity. It then notes that the Caribbean economy has been trapped in low growth due to a lack of innovation. Despite foreign investment, firm productivity and competitiveness rankings have declined. The document proposes that the Caribbean needs to shift from resource-based to innovation-based economies. It recommends unleashing human talent potential through creativity training and supportive work environments. Bringing together government, businesses and academia in a "triple helix" model is suggested to build consensus on fostering innovation.
The document discusses factors that are common among successful innovation hubs. It identifies that establishing fundamentals like infrastructure and governance are essential prerequisites. Innovation hubs must then develop a specific sector focus to concentrate resources. Successful hubs historically followed paths of large government investments, attracting established companies, or capitalizing on technical advances through a talent base. As hubs mature, they must broaden their sectors and attract global talent to sustain long-term growth. The availability of a specialized talent pool is the single most important factor for driving innovation across all sectors.
The document discusses the importance of national innovation ecosystems for sustainable development. It defines the old economy as driven by inputs like labor, capital and resources, while the new economy is knowledge-based and driven by innovation. A national innovation ecosystem consists of factors that deepen knowledge intensity like intellectual capital, interaction, incentives and institutions. It also discusses how countries can progress through different stages from imitation to innovation leadership. Developing strong national innovation ecosystems is important for countries to compete in the global new economy and achieve increasing returns through innovation.
Todays Innovation, Tomorrows Prosperity November 2010Colin McKillop
This report discusses Ontario's prosperity and productivity gaps compared to international peers. It finds that Ontario lags behind in productivity, which accounts for most of the prosperity gap. Innovation is highlighted as imperative for Ontario's prosperity. The report sets a 2020 agenda to close these gaps through attitudes that encourage innovation, investments in education and technology, and maintaining tax changes that motivate innovation.
Future trends in technology business incubation_Rustam Lalkaka_2007Vasily Ryzhonkov
1) The keynote discusses future trends in technology business incubation, focusing on how incubation can help address global issues of poverty, unemployment, and development.
2) It notes that half of the world's business incubators are located in developing countries, but many are concentrated in only a few nations. Emerging models emphasize public-private partnerships and serving low-income populations.
3) Looking ahead, the keynote predicts convergence of smart incubation services, stronger university links, more emphasis on social innovation, and the need to prepare developing economies for globalization through business incubation.
Silicon Valley has established itself as the leading global innovation ecosystem due to key factors such as transparency in venture capitalism funding, support from top universities, and a skilled workforce culture. However, strict immigration laws and high housing costs present challenges. While venture capital and university partnerships remain strengths, addressing foreign talent restrictions and infrastructure sustainability will help Silicon Valley maintain its edge in the face of global competition.
Smoopeds aims to deliver healthy smoothies to busy customers. They will offer an array of smoothie flavors containing vitamins and caffeine. Their target customers are people seeking a quick, healthy breakfast or snack. Smoopeds sees an opportunity in the growing healthy convenience food market and plans to beat competitors to market expansion. They will use mopeds to deliver smoothies and employ social media marketing. Initial funding will be sought to cover startup costs and open the first location over the next year and a half.
O documento discute sobre pilha e heap, variáveis primitivas e de referência, literais, atribuições, escopo de variáveis, wrappers, autoboxing, sobrecarga, garbage collector. As principais informações são: 1) Variáveis de instância e objetos ficam no heap, variáveis locais na pilha; 2) Variáveis primitivas armazenam valores diretamente, enquanto referências armazenam endereços de objetos no heap; 3) Wrappers permitem usar primitivos como objetos.
Este documento presenta la segunda parte de un proyecto de seminario de informática. Contiene dos presentaciones en PowerPoint sobre temas como publicar páginas web, mostrar archivos de video y flash, y combinar correspondencia. La otra presentación cubre conceptos de virus informáticos como Spim, Ransomware y Spyware, y cómo crear un blog personal y videos en MovieMaker. El documento concluye que es útil conocer sobre estos temas de seguridad informática y herramientas multimedia.
The document discusses troubleshooting BGP routing issues using Juniper examples. It begins by outlining some caveats and assumptions. Then it covers topics like originating routes, filtering routes, summarizing routes, and next hop problems. Examples are provided using show commands on Juniper routers to verify routes are being advertised and received correctly. Troubleshooting steps like modifying routing policies are demonstrated to resolve issues like more specific routes being advertised or next hop reachability problems.
CIPA - Comissão Interna de Prevenção de AcidentesGui Souza A
Este documento descreve as responsabilidades e funcionamento da Comissão Interna de Prevenção de Acidentes (CIPA) em empresas. A CIPA tem como objetivo visitar locais de trabalho e garantir a saúde e segurança dos trabalhadores, além de investigar acidentes e doenças ocupacionais. A CIPA é composta por representantes dos trabalhadores e empregadores e realiza reuniões periódicas para discutir questões de segurança. O processo eleitoral para escolha dos membros da CIPA também é detalhado.
Ever accelerating pace of globalization has opened a window of opportunity for innovative entrepreneurs to jump from spring board of their locally retained markets into promise lands of globally acclaimed high ranking business heavens. The other name of these business heavens is Emerging Markets. It is now a known fact that the growth advantage in emerging markets, if other things remain the same, is expected to translate into 62% of global growth. Multinationals expect about 70 percent of the world’s growth over the next few years to come from emerging markets, with 40 percent emanating from just two countries: China and India. In addition to growth rate advantage, expanding middle-class consumer base, impressive Doing Business regulatory reforms, more than half of $55 billion of global middle-class spending will come from Asia Pacific.
Emerging markets are expected to drive the majority of global growth in the coming years. Their growth advantage stems from expanding middle classes, regulatory reforms improving the ease of doing business, and an emphasis on innovation. However, unemployment and income inequality pose risks and must be addressed to ensure stability. Entrepreneurs and financial institutions could help by focusing on literacy, jobs, and reducing social and economic disparities through an independent initiative promoting sustainable development.
The document discusses how international businesses are increasingly engaged in competition and conflicts over finite natural resources as consumption rises globally. It notes that China in particular has aggressively acquired resources in places like the Middle East and Africa. This resource grab has geopolitical implications and risks escalating into conflicts if not addressed through cooperation between nations. International businesses are now actively partnering with their home governments in the global pursuit of resources.
The document provides an overview of "The Breakthrough Forecast", which identifies 14 emerging technology trends or "Sweet Spots" that are expected to significantly impact markets and the global economy by 2025. It analyzes these trends across 10 critical economic sectors and forecasts that they will create trillions of dollars in new market value as businesses adapt to address sustainability challenges. The forecast is intended to help leaders understand and influence the profound economic and business model transitions underway through this "Breakthrough Decade".
Looking beyond the obvious - Globalization and new opportunities for growthEY
The changing face of globalization will have a profound impact on the business landscape. A constant challenge for business leaders is to anticipate and interpret how globalization is changing, while understanding the opportunities and risks it creates. Although there may be little they can do to change global demographic shifts or capital flows, business leaders can react effectively to the forces of globalization or, even better, anticipate them to their advantage.
Looking beyond the obvious: globalization and new opportunities for growth, looks at the most important elements of globalization for business. Drawing on three sources of research, including Ernst & Young’s 2012 Globalization Index, we explore the trends and issues business leaders must consider to move ahead.
In this uncertain world, companies will need to look for growth in new ways and from new places. The businesses that will ride the next wave of economic growth will be those that understand the significance of globalization and tailor their strategies accordingly.
www.ey.com/globalization
Making India a global hub an Artical writen by Raghuram G RajanSubin Suresh
this ia the study on how India can become a global hub what measures it is required to be taken for becoming a global hub. major pillars, India has to focus on.
This document discusses the globalization of Chinese enterprises. Some key points:
- Globalization has become necessary for Chinese enterprises as China integrates further into the global economy and a multi-polar world emerges with new opportunities for emerging market multinationals.
- For Chinese companies to develop further, they must globalize their operations beyond China's borders. This involves gradually becoming more reliant on overseas markets and improving global operations management.
- Few Chinese enterprises have reached an advanced stage of truly global operations unbound by national borders. Most are in the initial or intermediate stages of some global market interaction or optimizing their value chains for exports. However, since the 2008 financial crisis, Chinese firms have accelerated their globalization
Dan Herman GKWCC On innovation we're falling behind 1.20.2016danxherman
Canada is falling behind globally in innovation according to several indices. The DEEP Centre examines how governments and businesses can foster innovation-driven growth. Their research focuses on understanding entrepreneurship in the global economy and how to build competitive companies through investments in technology, capital and talent. While Canada performs well in areas like R&D inputs and number of accelerators/incubators, its productivity growth and number of high-growth export-focused SMEs lag peers. The billion-dollar firm category saw most growth in energy, retail and construction, while knowledge sectors saw no net increase. To improve, Canada must scale growth companies through tax policy, attract talent via immigration reform, and incentivize risk-taking through business culture.
Jimmy E Dadrewalla, European Finance Director at United Phosphorus - Corporat...Global Business Events
This presentation discusses corporate acquisitions in developing countries and managing associated risks and cultural issues. It notes that foreign direct investment has increasingly focused on developing markets in recent decades as opportunities for growth. When acquiring companies in new markets like Ukraine and Brazil, chief financial officers must focus on risk mitigation strategies, such as ensuring credible local partners and structuring deals to allow resolution of disputes in international courts. The presentation also emphasizes the importance of understanding cultural differences between countries and integrating acquired company employees and leadership to avoid potential clashes. It provides a case study on the challenges of establishing a joint venture in Brazil, including differing growth aspirations of partners and approaches to debt levels.
Global banking outlook 2015_Transforming banking for the next generation_full...Karl Meekings
The document discusses how banks must transform their business models to focus on profitability rather than revenues in order to succeed in the coming decade. It identifies four key areas where banks can generate revenue growth: targeting new customers in emerging markets, developing new products and gaining market share in developed markets, funding infrastructure investment, and partnering with non-banks. The document also discusses how new entrants have been increasingly competing with banks and how banks must respond to this new competitive landscape to defend their position.
While global HNWI wealth has reached record levels and increased over 70% since 2008, wealth management firms have struggled to translate this growth into profits. Firms face challenges such as shifting HNWI demographics and demands, increased regulatory pressures, and new competitors. One of the biggest challenges for firms is to effectively leverage digital technology and cloud platforms to transform their businesses and address revenue and profit issues.
This document discusses banking in emerging markets and identifies three key stages of financial maturity for these markets - frontier, transitional, and established. It summarizes the findings of surveys of banks and customers in 11 emerging markets representing these three stages. The main points are:
1) Emerging markets face growth opportunities but also volatility due to political and economic factors. Banks must cope with this volatility to succeed.
2) Banks face challenges including tougher regulation, intensifying competition, and increasing costs. They must address these "headwinds" to profit from emerging market growth.
3) Successful banks will identify lessons from peers in similar markets to adapt strategies locally and maximize profits from their most lucrative customers.
The document summarizes business challenges during and after the global economic crisis from 2008-2009. It discusses how unsustainable economic growth, reckless financial institutions, and opaque financial products led to the crisis. It outlines impacts like declining consumer confidence and economic downturn in Turkey. Microsoft's response focused on cost control, positioning for future growth. The recovery was expected to be a long "U-shaped" process, with stimulus plans potentially boosting IT spending but overall growth remaining slow after 2011. The "new normal" for Microsoft retail in Turkey involved maintaining strategy, focusing on market share and retail execution to acquire new channels and customers.
though "The future for MNCs in China" report was released in 2012 by KMPG, the content is still valid and shed the light for MNCs planning ahead...what are the key points from the report:
1 Rising labor cost
2 Shortage of Talent
3 Pay-for-performance is not working in China bcos of the Income tax system, ppl prefers low income to take back home.
4 Capital Market has not yet opened.
5 Biz license issue
6 Lack of innovation and management skills for future leaders in China
7 JV - has become popular, cos of license issue (if you cant beat them, join them: MNCs and Local companies leverage each other).
8 Corporate Incentive: tech firm corporate tax 25% to 15%, R&D has 50% bonus reduction.
9 Shared Service and outsourcing
10 Payment and cloud computing
Besides, it's convincing reading the biz leaders insight from different service sector, luxury (Bluebell), legal, Biz centre (the Executive Centre), Outsourcing (Genpact), Apparel (Avery Dennison), Logistics (FedEx), and of course KPMG itself.
This document outlines a macro approach for a financial services firm in the UAE. It begins with an overview of the UAE economy and wealth management market opportunity. A Porter Five Forces analysis finds high competition but opportunities in low supplier bargaining power. A PEST analysis finds the political, economic, social and technological environment favorable. The document recommends a focus strategy targeting Indian expats and SMEs in tourism/travel. Core competencies in customized services, data analytics, and consultative talents should be developed. It examines examples of both value creation and capturing, advising a balanced approach. Potential new services mentioned include CFO services, funds, private banking and REITs.
The World Business Angels Investment Forum (WBAF) annual meeting will take place from February 19-20, 2018 in Istanbul, Turkey. The theme of the meeting is "Unlocking the Potential for Innovation: Angel Investors Partnering with Family Offices and Wealth Management Institutions". The discussions will explore how these partnerships can foster innovation and provide business value. Over 100 global speakers from 54 countries will discuss developing financial and non-financial instruments to fuel early-stage investment markets.
The document discusses the growing importance of international finance. Globalization has led to enormous growth in international trade and cross-border capital flows. Liberalization and innovation have created a giant, dynamic international financial market providing many opportunities. However, international finance also introduces foreign exchange risk, political risk, and market imperfections. Multinational corporations have influenced lifestyles and business practices in Pakistan through marketing and advertising. They have expanded their operations in Pakistan through large infrastructure investments and marketing campaigns tailored to local culture and markets.
The document discusses international trade trends for Bangladesh and compares it to global and regional trade patterns. It finds that while Bangladesh's trade has grown, it is becoming more dependent on exports to large developed economies like the EU and US, making it vulnerable to economic downturns in those markets. Recent forecasts project Bangladesh's economic growth will slow to around 6% in the next two years due to declining demand from its major export partners in Europe and North America as they continue to struggle with economic crises.
1) The document discusses the need for strengthened global governance and a more level playing field through setting and enforcing global standards to ensure fairness in international trade, investment, and corporate behavior under globalization.
2) It provides evidence that while globalization has benefits, the gains are not evenly shared and there is a need to address its impacts on labor markets in advanced countries through better domestic and international policies.
3) The outlook focuses on ways to enhance fairness at the global level through stronger rules and cooperation in areas like exchange rates, financial regulation, state-owned enterprises, competition, and responsible business conduct.
Why Islamic Common Market if not an Islamic Union is necessarySUN&FZ Associates
It is challenging but not impossible!
Economic Power of any country is its real power in today’s world. Every other tangible and intangible element of national power without substantive economic power is worthless in international relations and global power politics.
Expertise in commercial diplomacy is an essential pre-requisite to configure a country’s tangible and intangible elements of national power. This is exactly what the rulers of the emerging economies have done to break the barriers of demographic constraints and to get out of the debt trap.
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Emerging Market’S Future
1. Theoretical Perceptions and Ground Realities
Presented By:
Zahid Hussain Khalid
BUREAU Chief & Country Manger – Pakistan
ASiAMONEY Magazine, a Euromoney Institutional Investor (Jersey) Company
Country Manager – Pakistan and Regional Coordinator, GCC Countries
Innovation Management, World‘s # 1 Online Magazine on Innovation
zahidhkhalid.research@gmail.com. zahid.khalid@asiamoney.com, zahid@innovationmanagement.se
2. Sequence of Slides
◦ Stages of Development ◦ Five Pillars of Innovation and Innovation Outputs
◦ Controversial Income Thresholds ◦ The Need for a New Set of Competencies
◦ Two Observations ◦ Five Challenges Ahead
◦ Financial and economic hotspots around the world, 2010 and Q1 2011 ◦ Three Shifts in the Competitive Landscape
◦ How to Consolidate Economic Gains and Arrest Social Unrest
◦ Three Keys and Twelve Pillars of Competitiveness
◦ Three indicators of Emerging Market‘s Present Growth ◦ Entrepreneurial Strength and Potential Role
◦ Emerging-Market‘s Growth Projections ◦ Two Required Initiatives
◦ Emerging-Market‘s Growth Advantage ◦ Cycle of Nine Social and Economic Evils
◦ Half of $55 Billion Will Come From Asia Pacific Over the Next Five Years ◦ Window of Opportunity
◦ Global Wealth and Emerging-Market‘s Pace o Wealth Growth ◦ Emerging Business Philosophy
◦ Emerging-Market Credit Metrics and Macroeconomic Management ◦ The Only Way out
◦ Balance Sheet Effects and Currency Depreciations are less of a Concern ◦ Creation of an Entrepreneurial Platform
◦ World Government Debt ◦ Need for Drawing of Human and Natural Flow Maps
◦ Global Distribution of Global Net Government Debt
◦ Foreign Exchange Reserves Held by Emerging Markets
◦ Foreign Assets, Liabilities and Current Account Imbalance
◦ Nine Areas of Business Regulation Reforms
◦ Measuring Reforms Around the World
◦ Who Made Starting a Business Easier in 2009-10 and What Did
They do?
◦ Annual Wealth Growth Rates by Country , 2000-09 and 2010-2011
◦ Economist Intelligence Unit‘s Growth Engines
◦ Global Distribution of GDP
◦ Global Middle Class Spending
◦ World Wealth Levels 2011
◦ Dollarization of Opportunities in Emerging-Market Cities
◦ Six Imperatives for Capturing Opportunity presented by Emerging Market
Cities
◦ Nine Areas of Business Regulation Reforms
◦ General Perceptions and Ground Realities
◦ Highlights of the concerns (?) before the Boom Bubble Bursts!
◦ Why China is Important?
◦ Measuring Reforms Around the World
◦ Who made starting a Business Easier in 2009-10 and What Did They Do?
3. Introduction
• Stages of Development
• Controversial Income Thresholds
• Two Observations
• Financial and economic hotspots around the world, 2010 and Q1 2011
4. Introduction
Ever accelerating pace of globalization has opened a window of opportunity for innovative entrepreneurs to
jump from spring board of their locally retained markets into promise lands of globally acclaimed high ranking
business heavens. The other name of these business heavens is Emerging Markets. It is now a known fact
that the growth advantage in emerging markets, if other things remain the same, is expected to translate into
62% of global growth. Multinationals expect about 70 percent of the world‘s growth over the next few years to
come from emerging markets, with 40 percent emanating from just two countries: China and India. In addition
to growth rate advantage, expanding middle-class consumer base, impressive Doing Business regulatory
reforms, more than half of $55 billion of global middle-class spending will come from Asia Pacific.
Global financial and economic crisis has necessitated the emphasis on business regulatory reforms. Through
its indicators World Bank and IFC‘s co-publication Doing Business Index 2011 has tracked changes to
business regulation around the world, recording more than 1,500 important improvements since 2004.
―Long-term success,‖ according to Deloitte‘s report Innovation in Emerging Markets - strategies for achieving
commercial success, ―will take far more than simply making minor adjustments to existing products, lowering
prices, or replicating existing sales channels. Instead, a new set of competencies and organizational
structures will be required to generate a continuing stream of innovative products and services tailored to the
needs of consumers and industrial buyers in emerging markets.‖
5. Introduction
Referring to challenges ahead ILO / International Institute for Labor Studies in one of their Studies on
Growth with Equity titled Making Recovery Sustainable – Lessons from Country Innovations maintain that
unemployment and inefficient income inequalities are the principal factors explaining social unrest. ―The
issue,‖ according to them, ―deserves urgent attention.‖
How these unemployment and income inequalities can be addressed? For that the global business
entrepreneurs and financial institutions have to address a Cycle of Nine Social and Economic Evils by
creating a powerful independent apolitical Entrepreneurial Platform for developing a genuine Global Natural
and Human Resource Vision and Index as a take-off base for a Global Entrepreneurial Initiative with a Five-
Point Agenda. Why do I want the entrepreneurs and financial sector to focus their attention on the first two
rings, illiteracy / ignorance and unemployment, of the cycle of social and economic evils? Is there room for
any doubt that the first casualty of social unrest is always economic activity? The truly genuine social unrest
that is invisible at present, if not addressed before it is visible, can and will surely turn all growth projections
upside down.
6. Introduction
Local growth of and expansion in a business enterprise motivates a businessman, as an entrepreneur,
to come up with an innovative overseas business expansion plan that requires internal and / or
external financing. The companies in country focused pioneering and local competitive business cycles
remain confined to local / a single country market. Retentive business cycle encourages ambitious
companies / entrepreneurs to start thinking and planning for crossing the borders and entering into
competition in regional and global markets. However an extremely powerful innovative pioneering
initiative breaks the barriers of boundaries and local competitive / retentive business cycles to directly
catapult a local brand into a transnational brand in international markets, such as, Microsoft Windows,
Apple appliances, Yahoo, Face Book, Google, Twitter, 800 CC Suzuki cars and now potentially Tata‘s
Nano etc. etc. A country‘s economic development and growth is nothing but the cumulative growth and
expansion of its manufacturing, agriculture and service sectors.
7. Introduction
STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT:
The ―economicians‖ have divided the countries / markets into following three, widely used and accepted
but controversial, categories and two sub categories based on income thresholds for establishing
stages of development: Under-developed, Developing and Developed. The transitory sub-categories
fall between the first and second and the second and third categories respectively upgrading
consequently the countries / markets from under-developed to developing and developing to developed
countries / markets as illustrated below:
◦ Underdeveloped
First transition phase
◦ Developing
Second transition phase
◦ Developed
8. Introduction
CONTROVERSIAL INCOME THRESHOLDS FOR ESTABLISHING STAGES OF
DEVELOPMENT
STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT GDP PER CAPITA (In US$)
Stage 1: Factor Driven >2000
Transition from Stage 1 to Stage 2 2000-3000
Stage 2: Efficiency Driven 3000-9000
Transition from Stage 2 to Stage 3 9000-17000
Stage 3: Innovation Driven > 17000
SOURCE: WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM – THE GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS REPORT 2010-2011
9. Introduction
TWO OBSERVATIONS
FIRST OBSERVATION:
Lynge Nielson has questioned the system developed by UNDP, the World Bank and the IMF arguing that their
―…existing taxonomies suffer from lack of clarity with regard to how they distinguish among country groupings.
The World Bank does not explain why the threshold between developed and developing countries is a per capita
income level of US$6,000 in 1987-prices and the UNDP does not provide any rationale for why the ratio of
developed and developing countries is one to three. As for the IMF‘s classification system, it is not clear what
threshold is used.‖ He proposes ―an alternative transparent methodology where data—rather than judgment or
ad hoc rules—determine the thresholds. In the dichotomous version of this system, the threshold between
developing and developed countries—pitched at the average development outcome—lies well below existing
thresholds used by international organizations.‖ He proposes the replacement of dichotomous version with
trichotomous version arguing, ―…the group of higher development countries is broadly equal to the group of
developed countries in existing systems and the two lower groups provide for the distinction among developing
countries that all three institutions find warranted. The taxonomy can be implemented using a variety of
development proxies. Multivariate proxies—such as the UNDP‘s HDI or a lifetime income measure—can easily
be incorporated into this framework.‖
Lynge Nielson, ―Classification of countries based on their level of development: How it is done and how it could be done,‖ IMF working paper, February 2011
10. Introduction
TWO OBSERVATIONS
SECOND OBSERVATION:
Markus Jaeger of Deutsche Bank Research in his report captioned, ―The Great Risk Shift – or why it may be
the time to rethink the developed-/emerging-markets distinction,‖ has also demanded, though in assessment
of sovereign default risk context, justification for ―…the fact that until very recently Greece and China carried
pretty much the same long-term foreign currency ratings. It looks odd that Greece with very limited
macroeconomic flexibility due to EMU membership and a public debt burden exceeding 100% of GDP should
be rated at the same level as China whose public debt amounts to a mere 25% of GDP and whose FX
reserves exceed 45% of GDP.‖
He has raised another point regarding emerging market credit metrics and qualitative improvement in
macroeconomic management. He argues ―… the distinction between Emerging Market-Developed market
obscures more than it enlightens. When the world‘s major economies were the largest economies with the
highest degree of financial stability, the strongest external financial position (at least vis-à-vis less developed
countries) and the highest per capita incomes, this distinction may have made sense. But following what may
in the future be recalled as the ‗great risk shift‘ regarding ‗developed‘ and ‗emerging economies‘, it may be
time to re-think old labels and traditional distinctions – and established views of economic and financial risk.‖
Markus Jaeger, “The Great Risk Shift – or why it may be the time to rethink the developed-/emerging-markets distinction,” Deutsche
Bank Research, 2010
12. The Keys to Emerging Market’s Future Growth
◦ Three Keys and Twelve Pillars of Competencies
◦ Three indicators of Emerging Market’s Present Growth
◦ Emerging –Market’s Growth Projections
◦ Growth Advantage in Emerging-Markets
◦ Half of $55 Billion Will Come from Asia Pacific Over the Next Five Years
◦ Global Wealth and Emerging Market’s Comparative Pace of Wealth Growth
◦ World Government Debt
◦ Global Distribution of Global Net Government Debt
◦ Foreign Exchange Reserves Held by Emerging Markets
◦ Foreign Assets, Liabilities and Current Account Imbalance
◦ General Perceptions and Ground Realities
◦ Highlights of the Concerns Before the Boom Bubble Bursts
◦ Why China is Really Important?
◦ Nine Areas of Business Regulation Reforms
◦ Measuring Reforms Around the World
◦ Who Made Starting a Business Easier in 2009-2010 and What Did They Do?
13. The Keys to Emerging Market’s Future Growth
THREE KEYS AND TWELVE PILLARS OF COMPETITIVENESS:
Factor-Driven Efficiency-Driven Economies
Economies
Higher education and training
Institutions Innovation-Driven
Goods market efficiency Economies
Infrastructure
Labor market efficiency Business sophistication
Macroeconomic
environment Financial market development Innovation
Health and primary Technological readiness
education Market size
14. The Keys to Emerging Market’s Future Growth
THREE INDICATORS OF EMERGING-MARKET’S PRESENT GROWTH:
1: Resilience
Multi-faceted growers have withstood the test of the financial
crisis and the economic downturn---and continued to
outperform
2: Consistent Growth
Companies from emerging markets are outgrowing competitors from
developed ones at a startling pace
3: Expanding Market Share
The smallest companies, with revenues of less than $1 billion, are growing by increasing
their market share to a much greater extent than larger companies are.
15. The Keys to Emerging Market’s Future Growth
EMERGING-MARKET GROWTH PROJECTIONS:
ACROSS THE BOARD EMERGING-MARKET COMPANIES GROW FASTER THAN THOSE FROM DEVELOPED ECONOMIES
*revenue growth rates segmented by geographic market *
Compound annual growth rate (CAGR)
By Location of Company Overall Growth Growth in Home Growth in Developed Growth in Emerging
Headquarters Market Market (for developed, Markets (for emerging
other than home) markets other than
home)
Emerging Market Companies 23.9% 17.9% 22.4% 30.7%
Developed Market Companies 10.7% 7.5% 11.7% 12.6%
Growth Rate Advantage in 13.2% 10.4% 10.7% 18.1%
Emerging Markets
*Based on growth-decomposition analysis of 2229 market segments for 720 companies, spanning a number of time frames between 1999 and 2008
SOURCE: McKinsey Quarterly – “Drawing a new road map for growth.” April 2011
16. The Keys to Emerging Market’s Future Growth
EMERGING-MARKET CREDIT METRICS AND MACROECONOMIC MANAGEMENT:
The growth rate advantage in emerging market economies is a planned outcome of emerging market credit
metrics and qualitative improvement in macroeconomic management, ―that,‖ according to Markus Jaeger ―…the
agencies have insufficiently taken into account.‖ Substantiating his argument he explains ―…a typical, top-tier EM
today has ‗excess‘ FX reserves and does not suffer anymore from ‗foreign currency mismatches‘, which were at
the epicenter of virtually every EM crisis of the past 15 years. Most emerging markets are also net external
creditors. This has allowed the EM to overcome the ‗fear of floating‘ and adopt more flexible exchange rate
arrangements, making them far less vulnerable to balance-of-payments shocks.
During ―the past twenty years, especially the post-2000 era,‖ according to Alan M. Taylor in his CFR report
captioned The Future of International Liquidity and the Role of China, ―…demand for reserves has seen an
explosive growth. Most of this growth has taken the form of demand for international reserves denominated in U.
S. dollars, and most has occurred in emerging markets.‖ ―External liabilities‖ of emerging markets according to
Eswar Prasad ―are no longer dominated by foreign-currency debt and have shifted sharply towards direct
investment and portfolio equity. Their external assets are increasingly concentrated in foreign exchange
reserves. Given the trajectories of reserve currency economic areas, the long-term risk on emerging markets‘
external balance sheets is shifting to the asset side.‖
What is even more interesting is that, on the asset side, foreign exchange reserves account for a large share of
total external assets—47 percent for Brazil, 69 percent for China, 68 percent for India and 37 percent for Russia
(17 percent for South Africa).‖
17. The Keys to Emerging Market’s Future Growth
BALANCE SHEET EFFECTS ARE LESS OF A CONCERN AND SO ARE CURRENCY
DEPRECIATIONS (?):
―Currency depreciations‖ another area of serious concern according to Eswar Prasad‘s assessment ―are far less
of a risk for emerging markets now than in the debt dominated era. First, the effects of such currency
devaluations are likely to be small since emerging markets no longer have large stocks of foreign currency-
denominated external debt, either sovereign or corporate. The devastating balance sheet effects that brought
some Asian economies to their knees during the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 are less of a concern.
Indeed, with many emerging markets now able to issue international debt denominated in their own
currencies, even debt is no longer as fearsome as it once was.
Elaborating that further Alan M. Taylor maintains, ―…since 1990, the ratio of reserves to GDP in the advanced
countries has held steady at about 4 percent, but the emerging markets‘ reserve ratio has more than
quintupled, going from 4 percent to more than 20% of GDP. Since 1990, global holding of international reserve
assets have risen fully sixty-fold, from $200 billion to roughly $12 trillion.‖ He deduces from the trend, ―…reserve
accumulation seems to have been motivated by a desire for insurance against capital flight in a world of semi-
fixed exchange rates.
In his working paper ―Role Reversal in Global Finance,‖ Eswar S. Parsad also maintains, ―…emerging markets
are looking for more insurance against balance of payments crises even as adverse debt dynamics in advanced
economies increase the potential costs of self-insurance through reserve accumulation.‖
18. The Keys to Emerging Market’s Future Growth
BALANCE SHEET EFFECTS ARE LESS OF A CONCERN AND SO ARE CURRENCY
DEPRECIATIONS (?):
The liabilities of emerging markets have come to be dominated by FDI and portfolio equity flows, while their
assets are increasingly in the form of foreign exchange reserves. In tandem with the uphill flows of capital
characterized in other studies, this implies a sharp role reversal between emerging markets and advanced
economies. Emerging markets have not only become net exporters of capital to the advanced economies but
have also substantially reduced the risk emanating from the structure of their external liabilities even as
advanced economies‘ external liabilities continue to be dominated by debt.
The emerging economies have survived the Great Recession in remarkable shape and headed off on a more
secure recovery track, which no one could have expected beforehand. Their gross asset to GDP ratios are now
far above anything seen during recorded history. Moreover, the process of cross-border financial integration is
potentially subject to a worrisome feedback. The larger these balance sheet connections grow, the more
vulnerable emerging economies are to a funding crisis. That vulnerability drives emerging economies to
accumulate more reserves, so expanding cross-border balance-sheet linkages further and setting off the next
twist in the cycle. “In light of the fiscal challenges,‖ Sebastian Becker of Deutsche Bank Research seems hopeful
in his paper, ‗Public Debt in 2020: A sustainability Analysis for DM and EM countries,‘ ―many DM countries may
introduce new or more effective national debt limits, similar to those put in place by some EMs.‖
19. The Keys to Emerging Market’s Future Growth
WORLD GOVERNMENT DEBT:
Aggregate Debt (in trillion of US dollars) Rate of Aggregate Debt to Aggregate GDP (in %)
DATA SOURCES: IMF's Fiscal Monitor, International Financial Statistics and World Economic Outlook
Notes: This figure shows the aggregate level of general government debt (upper panel) and the ratio of this variable to aggregate world GDP (lower
panel), with all variables converted to U.S. dollars at market exchange rates. In the upper panel, the data for advanced and emerging market economies add
up to the world aggregates. In the lower panel aggregate debt is expressed as a ratio of aggregate GDP for the respective group of countries. Net debt is used
except for the following countries that report only gross debt data: Advanced Economies -- Czech Republic, Greece, Hong Kong SAR, Singapore, Slovak
Republic and Slovenia; Emerging Market Economies -- Argentina, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Russia and
Thailand.
20. The Keys to Emerging Market’s Future Growth
GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION OF GLOBAL NET GOVERNMENT DEBT:
DATA SOURCES: IMF's Fiscal Monitor, International Financial Statistics and World Economic Outlook
NOTES: Other AE denotes other advanced economies and EM stands for emerging markets. Net debt is used except for the following countries that
report only gross debt data: Advanced Economies -- Czech Republic, Greece, Hong Kong SAR, Singapore, Slovak Republic and Slovenia; Emerging
Market Economies -- Argentina, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Russia and Thailand.
21. The Keys to Emerging Market’s Future Growth
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RESERVES HELD BY EMERGING-MARKET
A: Total Foreign Exchange Reserves (trillion USD) B: Currency Composition
C: Share of Reserves for Which Currency Composition is Known
DATA SOURCES: IMF COFER Database, June 30, 2011; The People’s Bank of China
22. The Keys to Emerging Market’s Future Growth
FOREIGN ASSETS, LIABILITIES AND CURRENT ACCOUNT IMBALANCES:
Foreign Assets and Liabilities Current Account Imbalances
Source: Robert C. Feenstra and Alan M. Taylor, Inter- Sources: IMF, RBNZ Calculations
national Economics (New York: Worth Publishers,
2007), p. 411
23. The Keys to Emerging Market’s Future Growth
GENERAL PERCEPTIONS AND GROUND REALITIES:
In order to see the bubble beneath the boom. I refer to the following three articles for a first hand assessment of
the ground realities:
By Minxin Pei, ―China‘s $2 trillion Hole,‖ The Diplomat, July 31, 2011
http://the-diplomat.com/2011/07/31/china%E2%80%99s-2-trillion-hole/
By Minxin Pei, ―China‘s Tricking Time Bomb,‖ The Diplomat, July 5, 2011
http://the-diplomat.com/2011/07/05/china%E2%80%99s-ticking-debt-bomb/
By Brian P. Klein, ―The Danger to China‘s Economy,‖ The Diplomat, August 9, 2011
http://the-diplomat.com/2011/08/09/the-danger-to-china%E2%80%99s-economy/
24. The Keys to Emerging Market’s Future Growth
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CONCERNS (?) BEFORE THE BOOM BUBBLE BURSTS:
Serious questions are now surfacing about China‘s own state-led economic management. Massive overcapacity
in infrastructure, stubbornly high inflation and a pile of potentially bad bank loans are undermining historic
economic reforms only half completed.
Forced relocation, runaway environmental degradation, and cash-strapped social programmes like
education, healthcare, and social security systems have been tolerated for questionable projects, many with little
practical use.
Entrepreneurial and middle-income business development, meanwhile, remains starved of resources, limiting
domestic consumption. The public at large heavily finances the state-centric investment model with their interest
losing bank deposits (yields below inflation) which are then lent out to state-owned enterprises at preferential
rates. The net effect: a wealth gap widening into a chasm – and increasing government concerns over social
stability.
The lift that keeps the ‗build-it-and-they-will-come‘ model going – largely policy inertia tied to a massive stimulus
plan and tight relationships between banks, state-owned companies, and local governments – can‘t defy
economic gravity forever.
Warning signs have been evident for some time. Back in late 2009, Wang Shi, Chairman of one of China's
largest development companies, China Vanke, warned that a significant bubble was forming. In August
2010, officials in Beijing's largest commercial district, Chaoyang, released figures showing half of vacant real
estate had been empty for at least 3 years.
http://the-diplomat.com/2011/08/09/the-danger-to-china%E2%80%99s-economy/
25. The Keys to Emerging Market’s Future Growth
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CONCERNS (?) BEFORE THE BOOM BUBBLE BURSTS:
Beijing has managed to keep its economy growing during the global slump by resorting to massive bank lending
to local governments, which then went on an infrastructure spending binge that‘s certain to haunt the country for
years to come. If we remember the causes of the economic crisis that has ravaged the United States and
Western Europe, the most important one is something euphemistically termed ‗credit boom‘ – excessive lending
and borrowing that fuelled housing bubbles and unsustainable consumption. China seems to have been afflicted
with the same disease, with only one major variation: much of the debt incurred in China has gone into the
infrastructure sector, not consumption.
Based on the figure released by the National Audit Office (NAO) at the end of June, local governments have
accumulated debts totaling 10.7 trillion renminbi (RMB) or $1.65 trillion – about 27 percent of China‘s GDP in
2010. Because the NAO‘s figure was based on a sampling of 6,500 local government-backed financial vehicles
(out of more than 10,000 such vehicles nationwide), the actual magnitude of local government indebtedness is
much greater. The People‘s Bank of China, the central bank, recently estimated that local government debt
totaled 14 trillion RMB (most of which was owed to banks), almost 30 percent higher than the NAO figure.
On paper, China‘s debt to GDP ratio is under 20 percent, making Beijing a paragon of fiscal virtue compared with
profligate Western governments. However, if we factor in various government obligations that are typically
counted as public debt, the picture doesn‘t look pretty for China. Once local government debts, costs of re-
capitalizing state-owned banks, bonds issued by state-owned banks, and railway bonds are
included, China’s total debt amounts to 70 to 80 percent of GDP, roughly the level of public debt in the
United States and the United Kingdom. Since most of China‘s debt has been borrowed in the last
decade, China is on an unsustainable trajectory at the current rate of debt accumulation, particularly when
economic growth slows down, as it‘s expected to do in the coming decade.
26. The Keys to Emerging Market’s Future Growth
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CONCERNS (?) BEFORE THE BOOM BUBBLE BURSTS:
One banking regulator revealed that only one third of these projects can produce enough cash flow to
service their loans. This implies that local governments won‘t be able to recoup the bulk of their
infrastructure investments – or repay the banks.
Because about half of the bank loans borrowed by local governments will come due in the next two years, we
can expect a short-term repayment crisis. Chinese state-owned banks will have to roll over these loans,
pretending that they are still performing. They may even have to lend local government‘s new money to pay
the interests on these loans. The net effects of such accounting gimmicks would be reduced profitability for
Chinese banks, admittedly not a cause for real concern. But accounting tricks can only temporarily delay the
inevitable.
http://the-diplomat.com/2011/07/05/china%E2%80%99s-ticking-debt-bomb/
27. The Keys to Emerging Market’s Future Growth
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CONCERNS (?) BEFORE THE BOOM BUBBLE BURSTS:
China‘s $2 trillion dilemma is well-known. Since 1994, China has kept its currency, the renminbi, effectively
pegged to the dollar. While initially this policy worked well in stimulating Chinese exports and stabilizing
domestic prices, Beijing allowed the peg to continue for too long, mainly to maintain an undervalued currency in
gaining a competitive advantage in foreign trade. By the middle of the last decade, the undervaluation of the
renminbi became a hot bilateral issue between the United States and China as America‘s bilateral trade deficits
with China soared.
Under pressure from Washington, Beijing reluctantly began to raise the value of its currency in mid-2006 (when
its total foreign exchange reserves totaled just under $1 trillion). China‘s revaluation process was disrupted by
the global economic crisis in 2008. Fearful that its growth could falter if revaluation made Chinese exports less
competitive, the Chinese government suspended raising the value of the renminbi in late 2008. As a result,
Chinese current account surpluses continued to balloon. The numbers are astounding. In July 2009, China
reported $2.2 trillion in forex reserves, more than double the amount in 2006. Today, two years later, China‘s
forex reserves have reached $3.2 trillion.
So for the moment, China finds itself in a $2 trillion hole it has dug for itself over the last decade. It watches the
political paralysis in Washington and the resulting economic uncertainty in complete helplessness. Contrary to
the fears harbored by many Americans that China would use its mammoth Treasury holdings as a financial
weapon of mass destruction against the United States, China is being taken to the equivalent of the financial
cleaners in the unfolding US debt ceiling drama.
http://the-diplomat.com/2011/07/31/china%E2%80%99s-2-trillion-hole/
28. The Keys to Emerging Market’s Future Growth
WHY CHINA IS IMPORTANT?
China is important for two reasons:
As a market China is rightly taken seriously by foreign direct investors as a strategic partner for consistent
economic growth, advantage of widest available consumer base and the economy of scale with the highest
possible profit margins / returns. Consequently, non-Chinese companies have a significant share in China‘s
economic growth. The booming Chinese business has an indirect reflection of their share in the China‘s growing
GDP.
China has heavily invested in USA and Europe both in dollars, SIVs and other assets sharing the risk of any
adverse fall out of an economic recession and financial loss.
I strongly believe that any economic and financial earthquake in Europe and / or America will make strong ripples
that will be felt not only in China but across the globe. So, IT IS ADVISABLE TO WHATCH CHINA TOO!
I have not intentionally touched upon India, Brazil, Russia and other countries of the emerging markets because
they do not pose any serious threat to global economic stability.
What the policy makers need is to remain focused on major areas of Business Regulation Reforms!
29. The Keys to Emerging Market’s Future Growth
NINE AREAS OF BUSINESS REGULATION REFORMS:
Dealing with Trading Paying Protecting Closing a
Starting a Registering Getting Enforcing
construction across
Business property credit contracts taxes investors business
permits borders
THREE MAJOR AREAS OF REFORMS FOR:
STARTING BUSINESS, GETTING CREDIT & OBTAINING ELECTRICITY CONNECTION:
•Documentation •Credit Bureau Coverage • Second most important
•Cost of starting a •Use of assets as constraint
business collateral • Procedures, time and
•Choice of formal and •Need for Centralized cost
informal sector collateral registries • Lack of transparency
• Need for regulatory
reforms
Obtaining
Starting
Getting Credit Electricity
Business
connection
DATA SOURCE: Doing Business Index 2011, World Bank/IFC
30. The Keys to Emerging Market’s Future Growth
MEASURING REFORMS AROUND THE WORLD
GOOD PRACTICES AROUND THE WORLD IN MAKING IT EASY TO START A BUSINESS
PRACTICE ECONOMIES* EXAMPLES
Putting Procedures online 105 Cape Verde, FYR Macedonia, Maldives, New Zealand,
Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, Singapore
Having no minimum capital requirement 80 Bangladesh, Belarus, Canada, Colombia, Mauritius,
Tunisia, Vietnam
Having a one-stop shop 72 Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Italy, Jordan, Peru,
Philippines, Rwanda
*Among 183 countries surveyed Source: Doing Business Database, World Bank (2009f)
31. The Keys to Emerging Market’s Future Growth
WHO MADE STARTING A BUSINESS EASIER IN 2009-10---AND WHAT DID THEY DO?
Feature Economies Some Highlights
Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, DR of Congo, Haiti, before the earthquake, eliminated the
Simplified registration formalities Croatia, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, India, Kazakhstan, requirement that the office of the president or prime
(seal, publication, notarization, inspection, other Kenya, Kyrgyz Republic, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Panama, minister authorize publication of company statutes in
requirements) Syrian AR, Tajikistan, Zimbabwe the official gazette. Entrepreneurs can now publish
them directly in the gazette. This cut start-up time by 90
days. Bangladesh replaced the requirement for buying a
physical stamp with payment of stamp fees at a
designated bank. It also enhanced its electronic
registration system.
Start-up time fell by 25 days.
Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Croatia, Ecuador, Croatia made it possible for limited liability companies
Introduced or improved online procedures Germany, India, Indonesia, Islamic Republic of Iran, to file registration applications electronically through
Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru the notary public. This cut 1 procedure and 15 days
from the start-up process.
Brazil, Cape Verde, Arab Republic of Egypt, The Philippines introduced a one-stop shop for the
Cut or simplified post registration procedures (tax Montenegro, Mozambique, Peru, Philippines, municipal license and cut the inspection by the mayor’s
registration, social security registration, licensing) Taiwan (China) office, reducing start-up time by 15 days.
Cameroon, FYR Macedonia, Mexico, Peru, Peru created an online one-stop shop allowing an
Created or improved one-stop shop Slovenia, Tajikistan, Vietnam entrepreneur to receive confirmation of business
registration and the tax registration number at the
same time. This cut 3 procedures and 14 days from
start-up.
Bulgaria, Denmark, Kazakhstan, Sweden, Syrian Arab Zambia eliminated its minimum capital requirement.
Abolished or reduced minimum capital requirement Republic, Ukraine, Zambia Syria reduced its requirement by two thirds.
SOURCE: Doing Business Database
32. Business Prospects and Growth Potential
◦ Annual Wealth Growth Rates by Country , 2000-09 and 2010-2011
◦ Economist Intelligence Unit’s Growth Engines
◦ Global Distribution of GDP
◦ Global Middle Class Spending
◦ Global Wealth Levels 2011
◦ Dollarization of Opportunities in Emerging-Market Cities
◦ Six Imperatives for Capturing Opportunity Presented by Emerging- Market Cities
33. Business Prospects and Growth Potential
ANNUAL WEALTH GROWTH RATES BY COUNTRY, 2000-09 AND 2010-11
2010-2011 2010-2011 2010-2011
High (>10%) Medium (5%-10%) Low (>5%)
Australia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Poland
Bulgaria, France, Hungary,
India, Indonesia, Malaysia, South
2002-2009 Africa
Romania, Russia, Turkey
High (>10%)
Canada, Korea, Mexico, Philippines, Egypt Austria, Belgium, Germany, Greece,
2000-2009 Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand Italy, Netherland, Portugal, UK
Medium (5%-10%)
Argentina, Hong Kong, Japan, Saudi Taiwan, USA
2000-2009 Arabia
Low (>5%)
Source: James Davies, Rodrigo Lluberas and Anthony Shorrocks, Credit Suisse Wealth Databook 2011
34. Business Prospects and Growth Potential
GROWTH ADVANTAGE IN EMERGING MARKETS:
It is now a known fact that the growth advantage in emerging markets, if other things remain the same, is
expected to translate into 62% of global growth. Multinationals expect about 70 percent of the world‘s growth
over the next few years to come from emerging markets, with 40 percent emanating from just two countries:
China and India. According to Bloomberg Businessweek‘s 2010 ranking of the ―50 Most Innovative Companies,‖
15 are Asian and, for the first time, 11 are from emerging economies.
If this growth rate remains unchallenged by natural and man-made circumstances than according to an
―estimate,‖ by Wayne G. Borchardt, Jill S. Dailey and Paul F. Nunes published in 3rd issue of Accenture Outlook
in 2011: ―New global middle class will rise from approximately 1.8 billion households in 2009 to nearly 4.9 billion
in 2030.‖ This new middle class at present has annual household incomes between $5000 and $30,000 already
representing ―…a surging mass market all by themselves, and these newly empowered consumers shop eagerly
for stylish and high quality goods.‖ The following graph from The Emerging Middle Class in Developing Countries
in a report by OECD Development Centre indicates that in developing countries by 2030, global middle-class
spending is expected to more than double, reaching more than $55 billion---and over half of that spending will
come from Asia Pacific. Over the next five years,
35. Business Prospects and Growth Potential
ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE UNIT’S GROWTH ENGINES:
SOURCE: Economist Intelligence Unit
36. Business Prospects and Growth Potential
GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION OF GDP:
DATA SOURCES: IMF's Fiscal Monitor, International Financial Statistics and World Economic Outlook
NOTES: Other AE denotes other advanced economies and EM stands for emerging markets. GDP is measured at current prices and
converted to a common currency at market exchange rates.
37. Business Prospects and Growth Potential
HALF OF $55 BILLION WILL COME FROM ASIA PACIFIC OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS:
If this growth rate remains unchallenged by natural and man-made circumstances than according to an
―estimate,‖ by Wayne G. Borchardt, Jill S. Dailey and Paul F. Nunes published in 3rd issue of Accenture Outlook
in 2011: ―New global middle class will rise from approximately 1.8 billion households in 2009 to nearly 4.9 billion
in 2030.‖ This new middle class at present has annual household incomes between $5000 and $30,000 already
representing ―…a surging mass market all by themselves, and these newly empowered consumers shop eagerly
for stylish and high quality goods.‖ The following graph from The Emerging Middle Class in Developing Countries
in a report by OECD Development Centre indicates that in developing countries by 2030, global middle-class
spending is expected to more than double, reaching more than $55 billion---and over half of that spending will
come from Asia Pacific. Over the next five years,
38. Business Prospects and Growth Potential
GLOBAL MIDDLE-CLASS SPENDING ($ million):
Source: The Emerging Middle Class in Developing Countries, OECD Development Centre, 2010
39. Business Prospects and Growth Potential
GLOBAL WEALTH AND EMERGING-MARKET’S PACE OF WEALTH GROWTH:
Wealth is one of the pillars of economic system - driving economic growth, the accumulation of capital, trends
in consumption, asset prices and specific industries such as pharmaceutical and banking. Credit Suisse
Research Institute estimates that global household wealth totaled USD 231 trillion in mid-2011, equivalent to
USD 51,000 per adult. From the viewpoint of their estimate, the financial crisis would appear to be more than
a modest setback in a benign decade for household wealth accumulation, which saw aggregate wealth
double from USD 113 trillion recorded for 2000. Part of the rise may be attributed to the rise in the adult
population from 3.6 billion to 4.5 billion.
Credit Suisse Research Institute expects to see a big improvement in the position of emerging market
economies. Wealth in both China and Africa as whole is projected to rise by over 90%, but India and Brazil
are forecast to do even better, with personal wealth more than doubling by 2016. The case of India is
particularly striking. With total wealth of USD 4.1 trillion in 2011, India‘s household wealth is comparable to the
USA in 1916. But during the next five years India is projected to gain as much wealth as the USA achieved
over the course of thirty years beginning in 1916. This is due to increase in wealth per adult accompanied by
a significant rise in the adult population. The case of Brazil is also noteworthy. With household wealth
expected to reach USD 9.2 trillion by 2016 – a level comparable to the USA in 1948 – the rise in wealth in the
next five years should correspond to the gain in the USA over the 23-year period from 1925 to 1948. Total
household wealth in China is currently USD 20.1 trillion, equivalent to that recorded for the USA in 1968. If
recent trend continue, by 2016 China could reach the wealth level that USA achieved in 1990 – a jump of 22
US years in just five years.
40. Business Prospects and Growth Potential
GLOBAL WEALTH LEVELS 2011
Source: James Davies, Rodrigo Lluberas and Anthony Shorrocks, Credit Suisse Wealth Databook 2011
41. Business Prospects and Growth Potential
DOLLARIZATION OF OPPORTUNITIES IN EMERGING-MARKET CITIES:
POPULATION
One-third of the world‘s population---2.6
INFRASTRUCTURE
billion people---live in mega The infrastructure investment
HOUSING
cities, cluster capitals, specialized hubs in these cities is forecast at Emerging markets will
and horizon towns which are located in $30 trillion to $40 trillion require an estimated
the emerging markets. By 2030, the cumulatively over the next 20 $13.8 trillion in housing
number of emerging-market urban years. The shortfall between investments from 2010
dwellers will increase by another 1.3 needed infrastructure in to 2030, with a huge
billion. In contrast, cities in developed emerging-market cities and portion of the demand
markets will add only 100 million new available public funds is coming from
residents in the next 20 years. estimated to be in the Brazil, China, India and
neighborhood of $11 trillion to Mexico
$14 trillion through 2030
CONSUMPTION: Emerging market cities will account for 30 percent of global private
consumption by 2015 and private consumption is growing at a rate of 11
percent per year.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
DATA SOURCE: WINNING IN EMERGING MARKET CITIES – A GUIDE TO THE WORLD’S LARGEST GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES, BOSTON
CONSULTING GROUP, 2008
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42. Business Prospects and Growth Potential
SIX IMPERATIVES FOR CAPTURING OPPORTUNITY PRESENTED BY
EMERGING-MARKET CITIES:
1 Define growth plans on the 2 Specify the necessary go- 3 Develop true expertise and
basis of specific target cities--- insight regarding consumer
to-market models to enable
the portfolio of emerging- needs across a range of city
profitable expansion into more
market cities to be served now environments in emerging
and smaller cities
and in the future markets
4 Forge a game plan to profit 5 Develop talent and 6 Upgrade capabilities for
organization plans at a city-by-
from infrastructure boom city level over a five-to-ten- managing complexity and risk
year time frame
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
SOURCE: WINNING IN EMERGING MARKET CITIES – A GUIDE TO THE WORLD’S LARGEST GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES, BOSTON CONSULTING
GROUP, 2008
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43. Innovating the Innovated
• Five Pillars of Innovation and Two Innovation Outputs
• The need for a New Set of Competencies
• Five Challenges Ahead
• Three Shifts in the Competitive Landscape that are Ushering in the New
Age of Aggregation
• How to Consolidate Gains and Arrest Social Unrest
44. Innovating the Innovated
FIVE PILLARS OF INNOVATION AND TWO INNOVATION OUTPUTS:
Global Innovation Index 2011‘s ―…Innovation Input Sub-Index gauges elements of the national economy
that enable innovative activities, grouped in five pillars:
(1) Institutions,
(2) Human capital and research,
(3) Infrastructure,
(4) Market sophistication, and
(5) Business sophistication (almost same as in WEF‘s Global Competitiveness Report 2011). The
Innovation Output Sub-Index captures actual evidence of innovation outputs, divided in two pillars:
(6) Scientific outputs and
(7) Creative outputs.‖
45. Innovating the Innovated
THE NEED FOR A NEW SET OF COMPETENCIES:
―Global manufacturers are focused intently on the opportunities to source, develop, manufacture, sell,
and service their products in emerging markets. But long-term success will take far more than simply
making minor adjustments to existing products, lowering prices, or replicating existing sales channels.
Instead, a new set of competencies and organizational structures will be required to generate a
continuing stream of innovative products and services tailored to the needs of consumers and industrial
buyers in emerging markets.‖
Deloitte‘s report Innovation in Emerging Markets - strategies for achieving commercial success
46. Innovating the Innovated
FIVE CHALLENGES AHEAD:
1. Rethinking value propositions,
2. Globalizing research,
3. Tailoring talent management,
4. Mastering the complexity of global value chains and
5. Managing risks
47. Innovating the Innovated
THREE SHIFTS IN THE COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE THAT ARE USHERING IN THE
NEW AGE OF AGGREGATION:
1. Converging business activities and players are blurring industry boundaries,
2. Rising incomes and the desire for affordable luxury are melding to create a new global middle
class and
3. Savvy new emerging-market players are redrawing the competitive map
―…the companies must first redefine their business strategies to include the new markets and
segments. They must then redraw their product/market matrix with an eye toward refining existing
offerings and creating new ones, and work out the issues that surround expanded retail
channels, logistics requirements and supply chain management considerations.‖
―Companies must also redraw positioning maps to take into account the entry of new competitors from
emerging markets and other industries and to incorporate the newly expanded set of customer values
and demands that are surfacing as companies bring scattered market segments together.‖
From: Accenture‘s report New paths to growth – The Age of Aggregation
48. Innovating the Innovated
HOW TO CONSOLIDATE THE GAINS AND ARREST SOCIAL UNREST:
Another aspect of the challenges ahead is pointed out by International Labor Organization / International
Institute for Labor Studies in one of the Studies on Growth with Equity titled Making Recovery Sustainable –
Lessons from Country Innovations. ―To sustain recovery,‖ study cautions, ―several emerging and developing
countries need to consolidate the gains made in boosting domestic sources of growth in order to compensate
for weaker export markets in advanced economies. Well-designed employment and social policies can be
instrumental in this respect. There is no one-size-fits-all strategy for achieving this. Indeed, the obstacles to
domestic growth vary across countries, requiring a different mix of infrastructure investment, wage and social
protection policies and rural development initiatives, including facilitating enterprise creation and expansion.‖
The study refers ―to recent events in certain countries in the Middle East and North African region that have
highlighted the centrality of employment and balanced income developments for social cohesion – itself a key
ingredient of sustainable growth. Empirical evidence shows that unemployment and inefficient income
inequalities are the principal factors explaining social unrest. The issue deserves urgent attention, especially
since the trend rise in food prices is likely to exacerbate income inequalities.‖
49. Entrepreneurship & Financing
Entrepreneurial Strength and Potential Role
Two required Initiatives
Cycle of Nine Social and Economic Evils
Window of Opportunity
Emerging Business Philosophy
The Only Way Out
Creation of An Entrepreneurial Platform
Need for the Drawing of Human and Natural Flow Maps
50. Entrepreneurship & Financing
ENTRPRENEURAL STRENGTH AND POTENTIAL ROLE:
In 2010, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveyed 175,000 people in 59 economies covering over
52% of the world‘s population and 84% of the world‘s GDP. ―Some 110 million people between 18 and 64
years old,‖ according to the findings of the survey, ―were actively engaged in starting a business. Another 140
million were running new businesses they started less than 3⅟2 years earlier. Taken together, some 250
million were involved in what GEM defines as early stage entrepreneurial activity. Out of these individuals an
estimated 63 million people expected to hire at least five employees over the next five years, and 27 million of
these individuals anticipate hiring twenty or more employees in five years. This illustrates the contribution of
entrepreneurship to job growth across the globe.‖
Entrepreneurship and financing are two areas that can be looked at for employment creation and balanced
income developments for social cohesion
51. Entrepreneurship & Financing
TWO REQUIRED INITIATIVES
Governments, in present global economic and fiscal scenarios, can not go beyond facilitating policy support.
There are two specific initiatives that need to be focused by entrepreneurs and financial institutions: creation
of institutions for work integrated learning and subsequent employment creation in professional career
corridors and re-packaging and heavily advertised global introduction of financial products for self-
employment avenues. First is successfully done in Germany with excellent results and being attempted in
dozens of other countries. The second is scarcely available and rarely advertised. Investment in these two
areas will equip the entrepreneurs with the quality human resource that is an essential pre-requisite for
success of and expansion in any business any where in the world.
Prior to that, it is necessary, first of all to address a vicious Cycle of Nine Social and Economic Evils: Illiteracy
and Ignorance; Unemployment; Poverty; Deprivation; Disease; Crime and Corruption; Injustice and Violation
of Human Rights; Political, Religious and Ethnic Prejudices; Sectarianism and Terrorism.
52. Entrepreneurship & Financing
CYCLE OF NINE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC EVILS:
If one carefully looks at the formation of the cycle of social and economic evils he will note that the last seven
social and economic evils are nothing but the direct outcome of the first two evils, i.e. illiteracy / ignorance and
unemployment. These social and economic evils are inter-connected and that connection needs to be clearly
understood before any remedial plan or process is initiated:
Illiteracy and Ignorance
Sectarianism and
Terrorism Unemployment
Political, Religious and
Cycle of Nine
Ethnic Prejudices
Social and Poverty
Economic Evils
Injustice and Violation of Deprivation
Human Rights
Crime and Corruption Disease
53. Entrepreneurship & Financing
WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY
WHO IS THE FIRST CASUALTY OF THE SCOIAL UNREST:
When crime and corruption, injustice and violation of human rights, political, ethnic and religious prejudices
and sectarianism and terrorism paralyze cities and countries, the first casualty of that unrest is always
business activity resulting in daily business losses of hundreds of millions of dollars per hour and per day in
both developed and developing countries. Who suffers the most? The business community suffers the most
excluding those who sell arms and ammunition and also those who provide financial back up for such
activities. If you look at the rarely discussed genuine reasons for present economic crisis you will surely see
the same evils working behind the scene. The situation in and around Iraq, the ongoing war on terror in and
around Afghanistan, the unrest and armed conflicts across Africa, the real and artificial political upheaval in
the middle-east are all directly or indirectly influencing the supply and prices of the commodities, products and
services. This situation, wars, unrest and upheavals or engineered changes in political landscapes all are
caused by the illiteracy / ignorance and unemployment and other evils that follow the two. You may also add
the inward looking and self-centered educated strategists and policy makers into the list of culprits at the
delivering end who are taking undue advantage of the illiteracy / ignorance and unemployment of socially and
economically deprived people who are at the receiving end across the globe. Consequently, creating artificial
hurdles in the flow of natural and human resources and making them expansive to the extent that a large
number of people around the world are economically pushed below poverty line every day.
54. Entrepreneurship & Financing
EMERGING BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY: SOMETHING OTHER THAN SOCIAL
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
ADDRESSING SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC EXCLUSION THROUGH SEGMENTATION:
There is a very important aspect of emerging business survival philosophy that needs to be explored and
seriously discussed further at platforms like these. And that philosophy necessitates the focus on those
―economically (dis)advantaged consumers (too) who (cannot) shop eagerly for stylish and high quality
goods.‖ In this I see a window of opportunity for innovative entrepreneurs to create a range of products, plan
financial packages and show case low-cost services for socially and economically deprived people by
consciously and scientifically addressing social and economic exclusion that is the main reason for unrest
both in the developing and the developed economies. The message is to create room at considerably low-
cost through innovative entrepreneurship and financial assistance for that socially and economically
handicapped / deprived segment of the consumer mix that has the potential to disturb economic progress,
growth and development in emerging markets and geo-politically sensitive resource-rich economic zones.
As a business rule, the entrepreneurs and financial institutions have to make sure that all market segments
are taken into consideration at a planning stage so that the intentionally or unintentionally excluded segment
does not resort to violent agitation at a later stage hindering the implementation or expected outcome of the
strategic business plan in any part of the world. This is actually what is ignored at present in sensitive
economic zones around the globe creating uncertainty and confusion in entrepreneurial, business and
financial circles.
55. Entrepreneurship & Financing
THE ONLY WAY OUT:
How can these uncertainties and confusion be addressed? The immediate remedial measures that need to
be discussed are rationalization of profit margins, reduction in unrealistic gaps in pay scales and removal of
regulatory flaws. Another area of concern is the urgent need for balancing of consumer and commercial
income and expenses to create room for personal and institutional savings and genuine profit margins. ―The
level of savings,‖ according to 2011 Global Wealth Report, ―is one obvious source of wealth differences, with
increased savings translated into greater aggregate wealth and a higher wealth-income ratio. In practice it is
often difficult to identify the connection. Among G7 countries, the household saving rate shows substantial
heterogeneity, ranging from as little as 2% in Japan to 16% in Italy and 17% in Germany. During the past 15
years, saving rates decreased in the UK, the USA, Italy, Japan and Canada, but remained unchanged in
France and even rose slightly in Germany.‖ This situation calls for ―provision of more sophisticated financial
instruments‖ and ―carefully engineered impact of financial innovation on debts.‖ The declining saving rate is
alarming for economic activity across the globe leading to flawed economic and business growth projections
and disappointing results.
56. Entrepreneurship & Financing
1: CREATION OF AN ENTREPRENEURIAL PLATFORM WITH FIVE-POINT AGENDA:
The entrepreneurs need to create an independent powerful apolitical entrepreneurial platform for developing a
Global Natural and Human Resource Vision and Index as a take-off base for a Global Entrepreneurial
Initiative with the following Five-Point agenda that can be discussed, debated and reviewed:
1: Resources 2: Performance Evaluation
The proper evaluation of the natural and human resource potential A real and unbiased evaluation of the performance of the social
of the least developed and the developing countries in general and and economic indicators to determine the precise extent of their
―failed / fragile countries‖ in particular self-reliance and reliance on others
5: Accountability
The mandatory authorization of International Court of Justice to try and punish the
rulers, politicians, bureaucrats, top officers of the armed forces and business tycoons who are
responsible for the creation and perpetuation of the ―Cycles of National, Regional and Global Social
and Economic Evils‖ through ―Well-Conceived Structures and Systems of Inhuman Exploitation.‖
3: Gap 4: Removal of Barriers
The declaration of a Strategic Plan consisting of workable options
The creation of unhindered channels for the flow of human and
for the bilateral, regional and global entrepreneurial cooperation to
natural resources from human and natural resource rich countries
fill and / or narrow the artificial bridgeable gap between natural and
to natural and human resource poor countries.
human resource potential and social and economic performance
57. Entrepreneurship & Financing
2: THE NEED FOR DRAWING NATURAL AND HUMAN RESOURCE FLOW MAPS:
I propose to draw two short-term, mid-term and long-term maps of natural and human resources that are
available and will be available in a given timeline. Based on real potential and actual performance, the human
and natural resource efficiency and deficiency spots have to be marked on the map highlighting their flow
from resource rich to resource poor countries. The proposed map will also indicate the artificial barriers of any
nature in the flow of resources and the cost of barrier to the countries involved.
If something is not done seriously on these lines than I have every reason to believe that economic
unpredictability, uncertainty and crises after crises will make the world economically unviable!
58. Thank You for your Attention
MY CONTACT DETAILS:
ZAHID HUSSAIN KHALID
BUREAU CHIEF AND COUNTRY MANGER – PAKISTAN, ASIAMONEY MAGAZINE
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Editor's Notes
Lynge Nielson in his working paper, “Classifications of Countries Based on Their Level of Development: How it is Done and How it Could be Done?” has questioned the system developed by UNDP, the World Bank and the IMF arguing that their “…existing taxonomies suffer from lack of clarity with regard to how they distinguish among country groupings. The World Bank does not explain why the threshold between developed and developing countries is a per capita income level of US$6,000 in 1987-prices and the UNDP does not provide any rationale for why the ratio of developed and developing countries is one to three. As for the IMF’s classification system, it is not clear what threshold is used.” He proposes “an alternative transparent methodology where data—rather than judgment or ad hoc rules—determine the thresholds. In the dichotomous version of this system, the threshold between developing and developed countries—pitched at the average development outcome—lies well below existing thresholds used by international organizations.” He proposes the replacement of dichotomous version with trichotomous version arguing, “…the group of higher development countries is broadly equal to the group of developed countries in existing systems and the two lower groups provide for the distinction among developing countries that all three institutions find warranted. The taxonomy can be implemented using a variety of development proxies. Multivariate proxies—such as the UNDP’s HDI or a lifetime income measure—can easily be incorporated into this framework.”