One of the key questions that linger on emerging market investors is: When will emerging markets turn into developed markets? An emerging market technically means it is emerging and at some point in the future will reach the developed market status. However that does always work out that way.In fact, some call emerging markets as …
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Here is an interesting infographic on the global nuclear industry: Click to enlarge Source: Sputnik News France generates most of the electricity from nuclear power. Unlike France, the U.S. produces only 20% of the electricity from nuclear power plants. Brazil is mostly dependent on hydro power plants for its power production.
The U.S. economy is the largest in the world with a GDP of about $18.0 Trillion. The GDP of most countries of the world are small compared to the US. Since the U.S. economy is huge, the economic output of each of the individual states in the country is also huge. The size is especially …
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Price comparison of the same product across countries is an interesting analysis to see how products are cheaper or costly in various countries. The Economist’s famous Big Mac Index uses the Big Mac burger of McDonald’s for this comparison. CFR tried a different approach using Apple’s iPad minis. Their research shows that the average price …
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Consuming high quantities of sugar is not good for health. For example, obesity is a major disease affecting millions of people especially in developed countries. Obesity is one type of metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is caused by excessive sugar intake. Some of the other diseases classified under metabolic syndrome are type 2 diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease, lipid …