The risk of the US pulling back significantly from involvement with the Asian, African and even Latin American economies is that it creates a vacuum, one that China should be eager to fill.
Category: emerging markets
ASEAN eCommerce sets to replace China saturated market
Guest post by Kim Jae-kyoung SINGAPORE ― The ASEAN region (The Association of Southeast Asian Nations) is emerging as one of the most promising e-commerce markets in the world to replace…
Is Facebook Marketplace ignoring emerging markets eCommerce?
Yes, it’s happening. Facebook Marketplace has finally been launched. The Marketplace is a new feature inside the Facebook mobile app. The Marketplace comes as a response to marketplaces type sites like…
Innovation: Meet “Text Engine”, the Google with text messages.
I’ve had a smartphone since 2010. In developed countries, a feature phone is a memory of the past – a nostalgic thought about flip phones. However in developing and frontier…
Opinion: Sara Haq’s perspective on Emerging markets expertise
Guest post by Sara Haq It is impossible to know everything about emerging markets business. Even if one could know all of the pertinent information at any given moment in…
Winners and Losers: Brazil’s convenience store battle
According to a consumer research by Ipiranga in 2015, 45% of customers that shopped at AM/PM, didn’t purchase petrol – meaning that nearly half of customers went there only to buy the store’s products.
How Brazil missed its golden South-South co-operation moment
Guest post by Lídia Cabral, Institute of Development Studies Compared to China or India, Brazil is a relatively small player in development aid. Yet it has managed to make a mark…
Emerging Markets are much more Bitcoin native
The buzz around Bitcoin has been huge. It seems everybody is talking about it, but its uses have been restricted to a niche type of people and business. If you…
Brazil’s cash strapped consumers flock to Cash & Carry
Brazil is a peculiar place. Imagine you are Brazilian and after years of having a little extra disposable income, you and your family see it shrinking again. What do you do?
