Accelerator: Emerging Market Opportunities

Growth of economies and emergence of new markets brought about by the increasing accessibility of technology resources giving rise to a new middle class

Emerging Market Opportunities

Accelerator > Socioeconomic

Emerging markets remain important, even with mixed growth predictions for China and other markets over next several years

Definition
  • Economic growth and emergence of new markets in developing countries, including rising global middle class

Outlook
  • Slower growth in China, as transition to consumer-driven sustainable economic model results in lower factory output, real estate slump, potential for loan defaults, and lowest GDP targets in 30 years
  • Accelerated India growth due to increased confidence, lower energy prices, Western-friendly government reforms and growing Indian-based technology companies
  • Continued struggling of countries GDP-dependent on oil, including Nigeria, Russia and Venezuela

Implications
  • Sustaining developing market growth rates higher than most developing countries, despite occasional slowdowns
  • Driving economic expansion in markets like India to offset China's slowing growth
  • Steering development of new business and innovation centers in developing countries

Do your strategies and investments appropriately reflect opportunities and challenges brought about by emerging markets?

Briefings

Chinese importing company D.I.G. and enterprise blockchain provider VeChain’s wine traceability platform now tracks over 20 wines across Shanghai free trade zone

August 9, 2019

Facebook announced Connectivity, new organization housing company’s Internet-for-all initiatives, such as Internet satellites, Free Basics, and more

August 17, 2018

Development banks of BRICS nations formed new consortium that will conduct research on blockchain technology to innovate on financial sector applications

August 10, 2018

Social media firm Facebook planning to launch Athena Internet satellite in low Earth orbit by 2019, a step closer to bringing high-speed Internet service to unconnected parts of world

July 30, 2018

Alibaba Cloud announced launch of data center in Mumbia, India, which will enable country’s small and medium enterprises to execute cloud-based initiatives

December 30, 2017

Google launched Google Go, data-friendly search app intended for bandwidth-constrained emerging markets with newly-added search features

December 8, 2017

Veridium and Wala to introduce zero-fee and biometrics-authenticated digital banking model to serve sub-Saharan Africa’s unbanked population

November 19, 2017

Fintech startup Nubank testing and rolling out new digital bank account service NuConta for Brazil’s unbanked

November 1, 2017

Google introduced new mobile payments app Tez for Indian market, competing with cash and other payment apps

September 19, 2017

Airbnb rebranded in China as Aibiying, launched Trips service, and strengthened hiring and investment activities

March 31, 2017
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