Emerging Markets - Recent Developments

In China industrial heartland city of Chongqing, a painful economic transition is on full display

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/2182633/chinas-industrial-heartland-painful-economic-transition-full

What Next for China’s Development Model?

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/china-development-model-tensions-with-west-by-michael-spence-2019-01

India's electric vehicle goals being realized on two wheels, not four

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/20/business/indias-electric-vehicle-goals-realized-two-wheels-not-four/

Making policies matter

https://voxdev.org/topic/institutions-political-economy/making-policies-matter

“A little information goes a long way towards shifting clientelist electoral systems from vote-buying to policy-based competition”

Government help and market forces create a new industry in Chile

https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2019/01/19/a-cheery-tale-of-chilean-cherries

Indonesia’s Economic Prospects

https://www.economist.com/asia/2019/01/17/indonesias-economic-growth-is-being-held-back-by-populism

Tiny Indian state proposes world’s biggest experiment with guaranteed income

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/01/17/tiny-indian-state-proposes-worlds-biggest-experiment-with-guaranteed-income/

Battling Eight Giants with Basic Income

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/eight-reasons-for-basic-income-by-guy-standing-2019-01

Africa Charts its Own Course in International Trade

https://www.livemint.com/Politics/jCwyqtsaygzUDJfLOjOrSK/Africas-historic-pivot-Clestin-Monga.html

www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/africa-s-historic-pivot-by-c-lestin-monga-2019-01

Failed/Failing States:

Pakistan

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2019/01/12/why-imran-khan-is-unlikely-to-make-life-much-better-for-pakistanis

Venezuela

https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2019/01/12/nicolas-maduro-digs-in-for-another-six-year-term