ShiftingWealth

Helmut Reisen's blog on the recalibration of the world economy toward the East and the implications for poor and rich, policymakers and investors.

Wednesday, 30 March 2016

Lies, Damned Lies, and FDI Statistics

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The term “Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics” was popularized by the great US author Mark Twain, who attributed it to the British Prime Mini...
Monday, 7 March 2016

Africa´s Frontier Markets are Cheap Again

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Africa ´s equity portfolio flows have experienced consistent volatility during the past two decades. From a net equity outflow recorded for ...
Thursday, 18 February 2016

Who is Funding Africa´s Infrastructure?

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Data on lending sources for bank credit to Africa are hard to come by. Notably the People’s Bank of China, the China Development Bank, and ...
Monday, 8 February 2016

SWF divestment, oil prices and Shifting Wealth in reverse

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From a total of $ 1.8 trillion in 2000, global foreign exchange reserves reached a peak of $ 12 trillion by mid-2014. China alone stockpile...
Monday, 4 January 2016

Boom, Doom, Gloom & Africa

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"Africa´s Boom is Over", pronounced an article in  Foreign Policy  on New Year´s eve. One of the conclusions: "Without the co...
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Tuesday, 1 December 2015

FfD3 Hopes Meet EM Slowdown in Africa

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Just a little while ago (last July), they were so hopeful when adopting the Addis Ababa Action Agenda   of the Third International Conferen...
Sunday, 8 November 2015

Africa´s Resource Gaps are Tightening

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The structural slowing of potential output growth in emerging market economies that led to lower commodity prices has been simulated in the...
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Helmut Reisen has been Head of Reseach of the OECD Development Centre and an Economics Professor at the University of Basel. Most of his academic publications are listed @ https://ideas.repec.org/e/pre79.html
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