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The “T-Shirt Phase” of Economic Development
The NY Times had a great article last week on Bangladesh and the “T-Shirt Phase” of a developing country’s economic cycle. What is the T-Shirt Phase? It’s a stage familiar to all frontier market investors, where a country transitions from an economy dominated by subsistence agriculture to one that uses its cheap labour advantage to [...]
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The NY Times had a great article last week on Bangladesh and the “T-Shirt Phase” of a developing country’s economic cycle. What is the T-Shirt Phase? It’s a stage familiar to all frontier market investors, where a country transitions from an economy dominated by subsistence agriculture to one that uses its cheap labour advantage to [...]
MSCI held a webinar on “Exploring Frontier Markets” this week which took a look at their two main frontier markets indices: the MSCI Frontier Markets Index and the MSCI Frontier Markets 100 Index. While we’re glad to have institutional interest in Frontier Markets, here are 5 points to keep in mind when using their index [...]
Bitcoin’s parabolic ascent has been trumpeted in headlines across the internet. With prices breaking the psychological $100 level and an almost 700% increase this year, it has both speculators and skeptics out in force. So why is it exploding higher everyday? Bitcoin’s appreciation is actually the result of its inherent design. One of its biggest [...]
