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Indonesia

Market Snapshot – Indonesia

Indonesia

Key Facts

Indonesia is the 4th most populated country in the world (245m) spread over 17,000 islands; it represents 40% of the economy in S.E. Asia and , 16th in the world and yet most people’s knowledge of the country starts and finishes with Bali. (more…)

Emerging or High Growth Markets

Singapore Skyline

Today we hear a lot about Emerging or are they now High Growth Markets. However, we have to go back to 2001 when Jim O’Neil, Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management coined the acronym BRICS in a paper entitled “Building Better Global Economic BRICs”. It was clever and the term stuck with the media always referring to the BRIC economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China that would dominate the world economy in future years. (more…)