Leading emerging markets will continue to drive global growth
Estimates show that 70% of world growth over the next few years will come from emerging markets, with China and India accounting for 40% of that growth.
The forecasts suggest that investors will continue to invest in emerging markets for some time to come. The emerging markets already attract almost 50% of foreign direct investment (FDI) global inflows and account for 25% of FDI outflows.
Emerging market leaders will become a disruptive force in the global competitive landscape
As emerging market countries gain in stature, new companies are taking center stage. The rise of these emerging market leaders will constitute one of the fastest-growing global trends of this decade.
These emerging market companies will continue to be critical competitors in their home markets while increasingly making outbound investments into other emerging and developed economies.
Working to serve customers of limited means, the emerging market leaders often produce innovative designs that reduce manufacturing costs and sometimes disrupt entire industries.
Rising population and prosperity drive new consumer growth and urbanization
Most of the world's new middle class will live in the emerging world, and almost all will live in cities, often in smaller cities not yet built. This surge of urbanization will stimulate business but put huge strains on infrastructure.
Physical infrastructure, such as water supply, sanitation and electricity systems, and soft infrastructure, such as recruitment agencies and intermediaries to deal with customer credit checks, will need to be built or upgraded to cope with the growing urban middle class
Emerging markets will become the new battleground
As pressure for resources increases, we expect a battle for first-mover advantage among emerging heroes, global players and emerging market governments in regions such as the Middle East and Africa.
Global influence grows
Inevitably, the BRICs' growing economic strength is leading to greater power to influence world economic policy.
Emerging market corporations are another big new market: business-to-business sales to China and India,
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