Emerging Markets Megatrends

1. Front Matter

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2. Demographic Trends in Emerging Markets

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3. The Emerging Markets Consumer Boom

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4. Emerging Markets Megacities

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5. Reshaping the Global Financial Architecture

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6. Financing Infrastructure for Developing Countries

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7. China’s Belt and Road Initiative

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8. Emerging Manufacturing Hubs

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9. Disruptive Change from Robotics, Industrial Automation and the Digital Economy

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10. The New Global Technology Wars

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11. The Least Developed Countries: Opportunities and Challenges

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12. Crisis Prevention and Resolution in Emerging Markets

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13. The Impact of Climate Change

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14. Combating Terrorism and Organized Crime: Cryptocurrencies and Cybercrime

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15. Conclusion: The Future Emerging Markets Landscape

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16. Back Matter

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This book provides an assessment of the megatrends that are reshaping the emerging markets landscape. With developing countries already accounting for 40% of world GDP, emerging markets consumption growth will be an increasingly important growth engine for the world economy over the next two decades. However, emerging markets in many parts of Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America are still facing tremendous economic challenges such as poverty, inequality, weak governance and inadequate infrastructure. The developed nations are no longer insulated from the economic shockwaves impacting developing countries, as globalisation and economic integration have also amplified the transmission effects to the West through immigration flows, cross-border crime and the proliferation of international terrorism.


Emerging Markets Megatrends is an essential read for government policymakers, corporate executives, international investors and analysts wishing to understand more about the economic drivers and long-term outlook for emerging markets.

• Asia
• Africa
• Middle East
• Latin America
• Inequality
• Poverty
• Weak governance
• Infrastructure
• Economic integration
• Demographic trends in emerging markets
• Megacities
• Emerging markets consumer boom
• Global financial architecture
• China's belt and road initiative
• Robotics, Industrial Automation and the Digital Economy
• Global technology wars
• Crisis prevention and resolution
• Climate change
• Cryptocurrencies
• Cybercrime

• London, UK

  Rajiv Biswas

Rajiv Biswas has extensive experience as a professional economist, including working as Asia-Pacific Chief Economist for IHS Markit, as Director for South-East Asia for The Economist Group and as a consultant for the United Nations. His experience also includes working as Executive Director for Asia-Pacific Country Risk for UBS and as Senior Economist for the Commonwealth Secretariat. Rajiv studied at the London School of Economics and Imperial College, London University, UK.


He is the author of Future Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Asian Megatrends (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

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