May 17, 2017 - Research for this article was collected during William’s recent visit to East Africa. It is the second in a two-part series. The first was on Kenya’s consumer market. With one of the highest GDP growth…
How to win in Kenya’s dynamic consumer market
May 9, 2017 - Research for this article was collected during William’s recent visit to East Africa. It is the first in a two-part series. The second instalment will be on Tanzania’s consumer market. Nairobi, Kenya’s bustling capital, is a building…
Workforce Localization Crackdown: Events to Watch for 2017 Update (2/7)
This is the first in a 7-part update series on FSG’s 2017 Events to Watch. Additional updates can be found below: US Infrastructure Boom: Dead on Arrival? Events to Watch for 2017 Update (1/7) China Loses Control: Heading for a crash? Events to Watch…
Chile’s growth outlook weakens
Chile has long been perceived as one of Latin America’s most reliable economic out-performers, but on July 7, the government announced a downward revision of growth forecasts for 2015, a development which changed many observers’ perceptions of Chile’s economic health. According to…
Playing with fire: How political paralysis could derail Brazil’s fiscal adjustment
During a recent business trip to São Paulo, when I asked a client about the deterioration of market sentiment in Brazil, he pulled his iPhone out of his pocket, opened his Facebook page and told me “just read through the…
China 2020: Where is China headed with its “New Normal”?
In his speech at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos last month, Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang emphasized again that the world’s second-largest economy will not suffer a hard landing and that China is ready to endure reduced GDP…
Côte d’Ivoire: The Renaissance of Francophone West Africa’s Hub
Côte d’Ivoire is Francophone West Africa’s largest economy. Côte d’Ivoire is once again open for business. After a brief civil war in 2010-2011 that all but halted the economy, the country is witnessing a large stream of FDI targeted at…