Developing countries are home about 80% to the world’s population. For example, the population of China and India alone are approximately 1.35 bn and 1.25 bn respectively. According to a research report John McArthur and Krista Rasmussen of Brookings, 98% of world’s hungry people live in the developing countries. 78% of the harvested croplands are also in …
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Gross Government Debt as a percentage of GDP gets attention when we evaluate government finances. However according an article by Patrick Love at the OECD, Net Government Debt is also an important factor to analyze in addition to Gross Government Debt. This is a valid argument since assets held by a government is also important as those …
Emerging and Frontier markets are relatively big in terms of factors such as population, land, total number of listed companies, etc. However based on market capitalization of equity markets they account for less than 50% of the global total market capitalization. This is because equities in these markets permanently trade at a discount to equities …
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Quantitative Easing (QE) programs have been implemented by central banks of many developed countries since the Global Finance Crisis(GFC) of 2008-2009. In simple terms, the programs eases the short-term interest rate to zero or close to zero. In the US, this rate known as the Fed Funds Rate, has remained at or near zero since the …
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Global food prices are impacted by a multitude of factors. One of the main factors that affect food prices is the price of oil. Rising oil prices tend to raise food prices. When food prices rises, usually it is the poor countries that take the brunt of the negative impacts. Food prices spiked in 2007–2008 and …
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