Each week Frontier Strategy Group’s global team shares their view on key media stories, and what the implications are for businesses that operate in emerging markets. For more information about how to contact our analysts, send us an email.

Danyi Yang on “China Seeks to Balance Stimulus and Reform”

“China announced its 2016 targets and priorities during the annual NPC session. While the government seeks to achieve a balanced growth between economic rebalancing and market stability, this will be a very difficult task to accomplish. FSG thinks China will most likely achieve its GDP expansion goal for 2016, but keeping a targeted growth floor of 6.5% will be impossible for the next five years.”

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Matthew Spivack on “Private Players Eye Opportunities in Saudi’s Expanding Healthcare Market”

“The Saudi government is attempting a major shift in the healthcare sector, reorienting its focus to build up the private sector rather than concentrating on new public sector projects to upgrade the infrastructure. This dynamic will increasingly impact foreign MNCs operating in the healthcare sector, providing new opportunities but also shaking up the status quo in the competitive environment.”

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Mario Gutierrez on “After Deal with Holdouts, Argentina Must Cut Deficits, Bring Investment”

“Argentina and its main international creditors have finally settled a long-held dispute over the repayment of defaulted sovereign bonds by closing a deal worth USD $4.65 billion. Now President Mauricio Macri unveils larger challenges ahead.”

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Alec Lee on “Former Odebrecht Boss Gets 19-Year Sentence in Brazil Kickback Probe “

“The sentencing of Marcelo Odebrecht to 19 years in prison could drive the executive to produce his own plea bargain testimony, presenting perhaps the largest threat to Dilma Rousseff’s stay in office yet. Odebrecht’s hand is likely to be forced to avoid further incarceration, as in January the Supreme Court mandated prison after only the second appeal within the Brazilian court system.”

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