Marcus Al-Thani focuses on macroeconomic stability and growth cycles in developing economies. He leads the editorial direction on structural reforms across emerging markets.
Southeast Asia's electricity demand is growing threefold while grid infrastructure and financing lag behind. The IEA forecasts that annual investment will need to approach US$30 billion by 2035. With its financial and institutional advantages, Singapore is building itself into a regional cooperation hub, reshaping the energy transition pathway of the Global South.
Trend keyword methods, widely used in the SEO field, are becoming another lens for observing economic changes in the Global South. Starting from the methodologies of tools such as Exploding Topics, Semrush, and Google Trends, this article discusses how emerging market research institutions can leverage search data to detect in advance signals of shifts in regional growth centers, industrial chain migration, and changes in youth consumption trends.
According to Triodos IM's "Emerging Markets Outlook 2026", emerging market GDP is expected to maintain 4% growth, but intensifying geopolitical competition, resource contention, and inequality are testing their sustainable and inclusive development paths.
The loosening of traditional global alliances and intensified US-China competition are reshaping the world economic landscape, with emerging markets leveraging their resource endowments and growth resilience. Looking ahead to 2026, whether emerging markets can achieve sustainable and inclusive growth becomes a key question.
From the perspective of emerging market research, this article analyzes how Transsion Holdings has expanded from Africa to global emerging markets through localized innovation and a long-termism strategy, becoming the world's fourth-largest smartphone manufacturer, and reveals the deeper logic behind the rise of the Global South and industrial relocation.
Global FDI grew 14% in 2025, but the growth mainly flowed to developed economies, while investment in developing economies declined. UNCTAD data show that capital is concentrated in strategic industries such as data centers, and emerging markets face structural challenges. This article analyzes the logic behind the divergence in global investment and the way forward for the Global South.
Analyze how the international news distribution industry has transitioned from traditional press release distribution into the era of AI visibility distribution, and explore the impact of AI search, Search Visibility, and information discovery on corporate communication models.
The next growth cycle in Southeast Asia will be jointly defined by Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam. This article breaks down the regional growth logic of the "Magnificent Five" and signals of global capital reallocation from four dimensions: demographic structure, external buffers, digital infrastructure, and resource endowment.
This article, based on the latest research published in *Scientific Reports*, explores how a data-efficient framework combining Bayesian modeling and machine learning can help Global South countries accurately identify structural transformation pathways under data-scarce conditions, and provides new perspectives for investment and policy formulation.
2026 Emerging Market Outlook: Global alliances are loosening and resource competition is intensifying, with emerging markets becoming a key pillar of global growth at approximately 4% economic growth rates, yet internal inequality and sustainability challenges persist.
An in-depth analysis of how Transsion Holdings started from the African market and, through localized innovation and a multi-brand strategy, became a benchmark for global emerging-market tech brands expanding overseas.
From an emerging markets research perspective, this article analyzes how 15 Google Trends alternative tools can help investors, policymakers, and Global South researchers capture signals of demographic dividends, digitalization processes, and industrial migration.
Based on the white paper prepared by the World Bank Group for Japan's G7 presidency, this analysis examines the structural reasons for the decline in foreign direct investment (FDI) from over $1 trillion per year to $662 billion in 2022, including global value chain shifts, geopolitics, green policies, and others, and proposes response strategies for emerging markets.
Based on the latest research using the quantile VAR model, it reveals the connectivity of government bond markets across 13 major global economies and focuses on the risk exposure and response mechanisms of emerging markets under extreme yield volatility.
Based on the latest research, this article analyzes how changes in global trade patterns limit emerging market countries from replicating the export-oriented growth of the Asian Tigers, and explores the impact of automation, digitalization, climate risks, and policy shifts on development paths.
Based on UNCTAD and OECD data, analyze the phenomenon of India's FDI inflows growing by 44% in 2025 but manufacturing greenfield investment declining, and explore the structural challenges of emerging markets in global supply chain shifts.
As growth in European and American markets slows, global food giants are turning their attention to emerging markets. Demographic dividends, urbanization, and consumption upgrades are driving this structural shift.
This paper analyzes the dynamic relationship among economic growth, carbon emissions, and agricultural land in Indian Ocean rim countries from an emerging market perspective, and explores the application of machine learning in policy decision-making.
The Asia-Pacific kiln tire component market is expanding at a compound annual growth rate of 4–6%, driven by infrastructure investment and heavy industry expansion in emerging economies such as India and Southeast Asia. China dominates production, but import-dependent markets account for 70–80%, revealing the deep interconnectedness and risks of the Global South supply chain.
A PwC report shows that industrial and services transaction volumes in the Asia-Pacific region are expected to grow by 2% in 2026, while globally they will decline by 7%. India and Southeast Asia have become new hotspots for manufacturing investment, driven by the combined forces of supply chain decentralization, automation upgrades, and localization trends.