Tue Sep 1, 2009 16:41 GMT |
‘Change’ is a powerful message. Barack Obama made this his main slogan in his 2008 campaign. Rocky Balboa proclaimed this to the Soviet Politburo at the end of Rocky IV. UK girl band Sugababes called their fifth album Change. Now, even Japan has opted for change, after 54 years of rule by the Liberal Democratic… [Read more]
Tags: change, decline, demographics, DPJ, Economy, election, GDP, Japan, LDP, Policy, reform, technology, Yukio Hatoyama
Posted in: Asia, General, Political Risk
Tue May 26, 2009 17:02 GMT |
One thing I’ve been trying to get my head round lately are long-term economic growth forecasts out to 2050. The best known of these are produced by Goldman Sachs (see Dreaming With BRICs: The Path to 2050), but other investment houses have them too. Having pored over these over the bank holiday weekend, I have… [Read more]
Tags: 2050, Brazil, BRICs, China, environment, GDP, Goldman Sachs, India, long-term forecasts, Russia, scenarios, technology, world's biggest economies
Posted in: Africa, Asia, China, General, Geopolitics, Latin America, Middle East, Political Risk, US