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...Take Cynthia He. The 30-year-old Beijing native-her parents moved to New York when she was 15-is now the manager of investor relations at Baidu, the search company that recently went public in New York and is taking on Google in the red-hot Chinese Internet market. (Google's China chief, Kai-Fu Lee, is among the more prominent Chinese-American executives in the country.) How He found her way back to the country of her birth is not unusual. After graduating from New York University she got a job at Standard & Poor's as a derivatives...
...word article in January’s Institutional Investor magazine detailed Shleifer’s alleged efforts to use his inside knowledge of and sway over the Russian economy in order to make lucrative personal investments, all while leading a Harvard group advising the Russian government that was under contract with...
...awakened to make money to cover the social sphere." Growing animated, he added: "We are not announcing some kind of revolution." Ironically, the reforms Lepper and the Kaczynskis denounced on their way to power have made the economy so resilient that their fulminations have not managed to shake investor confidence. Political shocks such as questioning the central bank's independence or promising new programs without new revenues are being largely absorbed. "The fundamentals are strong," says Balcerowicz. But if the government continues on its present course, for how long...
...rebounding from a colossal banking scandal, the D.R. is trying to germinate a new $800 million regional financial center. "Leonel Fernández is very much a vision man ... This is exactly the sort of visionary project he absolutely loves," says Gaetan Bucher, a Swiss-Dominican banker and the lead investor in what will essentially be an offshore entity, first trading Latin American debt and later offering a safe haven for private wealth and corporate banking...
...better place in a globalized world. Making the rest of the country's economy as competitive as its beaches requires enhancing current strengths as an assembly export platform (more than 500 companies operate from its free-trade zones) and retaining a bigger share of its foreign-investor-dominated tourism industry, which accounts for 12% of the country's $29.1 billion GDP. It also means diversification. The challenge is an urgent one: 80% of the country's 9 million inhabitants are under 40, and 42% live in poverty. More than 12% of them have already left, mostly for the U.S. They...