Emerging Markets and Global Challenges

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This course focuses on key emerging markets around the world and important global economic and other trends affecting these countries. The course covers the major emerging markets of Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. The course covers a broad range of countries with critical economies like Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Nigeria and South Africa that will play a crucial role in the global economy over the next several decades receiving a strong focus. The course examines not only the economic potential of these markets but also how automation, artificial intelligence, the aging of the world, new financial technologies, climate change and other important social and economic trends will affect these states. Case studies look at the growth accounting and institutional conditions of these countries, investing issues in these states as well as challenges for multinational firms and domestic firms operating in such markets.