International and Emerging Markets Blog
Friday, February 17, 2012
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Brazil,
China ,
India,
Thought leadership
| Tags: India,
finance,
investment,
China,
report,
growth,
insight,
GDP,
inflation,
Brazil,
Russia,
forecast,
BRIC,
optimism,
BRICS,
global economy,
emerging economies,
analysis,
Keep up to date with the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) – how they are propping up the global economy but also some of the issues they face in 2012 on finance, inflation and investment. Here are some of the highlights from Grant Thornton’s latest survey report.
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Thursday, November 03, 2011
| Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Brazil,
China ,
India
| Tags: statistics,
China,
GDP,
inflation,
Economist,
conference,
BRIC,
High Growth Markets Summit,
Jim O'Neill,
Indonesia,
renminbi,
Turkey,
Korea,
emerging economies,
Mexico,
investment banks,
BRICs,
Growth 8,
keynote
The Economist’s High-Growth Markets conference, held in London in September, closed with a view of how the world’s most powerful emerging economies are set to change the global economic landscape in the next decade. So who are the ‘Growth 8’ and what other trends are important to note?
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 14
| Tags: India,
investment,
growth,
emerging markets,
GDP,
India Economy,
healthcare,
Capital goods,
FMCG,
IT services,
Listed Indian Companies,
equities,
developed countries
Indian markets have had a challenging 2011, first on domestic issues, and more recently on ‘global cues’. But how much will global events hurt Indian GDP and corporates? Not as much as expected.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
| Posted by: Grant Summers
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 12
| Tags: business,
tax,
India,
finance,
economy,
Grant Thornton,
governance,
growth,
India Watch,
UK,
infrastructure,
GDP,
economic,
Capital Markets,
Alex Wright,
Indian Economy,
inflation,
IT
Over the first quarter of 2011, the World’s economies witnessed a number of significant set-backs in their growth stories. The recent natural disasters suffered by Japan and New Zealand, coupled with the on-going political turmoil in the Middle-East, have created an unsettled start to the year.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 12
| Tags: business,
tax,
India,
finance,
investment,
economy,
Grant Thornton,
global,
governance,
growth,
India Watch,
UK,
infrastructure,
South Asia Group,
Grant Thornton India,
GDP,
South Asia,
economic,
inflation,
IT
The Union Budget 2010-11 was tabled in the backdrop of an improving economic scenario both within India and globally, but fiscal consolidation and expenditure discipline have still been rightly treated as the foremost priorities in this budget.
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Wednesday, April 06, 2011
| Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
China ,
India
| Tags: business,
India,
economy,
links,
China,
UK,
GDP,
inflation,
Budget,
Five Year Plan
Post-Budget season, we round up news from the UK 2011 Budget, reaction to India’s recent Budget and look at how China’s Five Year Plans measure up to their aims. Plus, many more of our favourite global business reads from the past month.
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Friday, January 28, 2011
| Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
China
| Tags: business,
statistics,
economy,
China,
survey,
IBR,
GDP,
inflation,
International business report,
confidence,
forecast,
index,
outlook,
Five Year Plan,
optimism
Levels of business optimism in mainland China have taken a dramatic fall over the past 12 months, partly caused by the growing inflation concerns, according to the
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Friday, January 21, 2011
| Posted by: Grant Summers
Categories:
| Tags: India,
finance,
investment,
economy,
Grant Thornton,
global,
growth,
India Watch,
UK,
risk,
Grant Thornton India,
international,
aim,
GDP,
economic,
Capital Markets,
Alex Wright,
FTSE,
sectors,
India Economy
As we say farewell to 2010, we can take this opportunity to reflect upon the economic environment in India over the past year and also the opportunity to focus on some of the key areas of economic importance for the year ahead.
The first half of 2010 saw significant year on year growth, with GDP ranging between 8.5% and 8.8%. The year, however, was not without its problems, as highlighted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), economic activity in both the manufacturing and service sectors in India slowed in the 3rd quarter of the year while infrastructural development and investment continued to cause concern, along with India’s ‘old friend’ inflation.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 10
| Tags: business,
India,
finance,
investment,
economy,
growth,
India Watch,
infrastructure,
GDP,
South Asia,
Alex Wright,
inflation
Over the last quarter, India’s economy has continued to grow at a significant rate. Nevertheless, doubts still remain as to the extent to which India’s level of growth can be maintained. The prohibitive combination of considerable inflation rates and years of underinvestment in the country’s infrastructure continues to prove an obstacle to growth.
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
| Tags: India,
economy,
Grant Thornton,
global,
India Watch,
South Asia Group,
emerging markets,
GDP,
South Asia,
economic,
Capital Markets,
Alex Wright,
London Stock Exchange,
sectors
While the world’s recent economic focus has predominantly been on activities in south-eastern Europe, there continues to be key economic developments throughout many of the world’s emerging markets.
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