Emerging Market Troublespots

Emerging Markets – Currency Clubs

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-30/emerging-market-currencies-tumble

Dark Side of Financial Globalization

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/31/business/emerging-markets-see-foreign-capitals-dark-side.html

Amongst emerging markets currently encountering difficulties, Argentina and Venezuela standout:

http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21595471-latin-americas-weakest-economies-are-reaching-breaking-point-party-over

Earlier post on Venezuela

http://vivekjayakumar.blogspot.com/2014/01/venezuela-disastrous-fuel-subsidies.html

Venezuela – More Problems than Solutions

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-30/venezuelas-high-crime-rate-hobbles-economy

Turkey is also an interesting case

http://qz.com/171961/turkeys-central-bank-has-probably-done-more-for-its-own-credibility-than-for-the-turkish-lira/

Russia - growing concerns
http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21595428-conspicuous-dazzle-games-masks-country-and-president-deepening-trouble-sochi
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-30/putin-s-russia-will-prosper-until-it-doesn-t.html

World Bank Chief Economist Kaushik Basu on India’s Challenges

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-25742983