April 27, 2012
AmericasThe recent Foreign Affairs article “Bearish on Brazil” lays out a quite pessimistic view of Brazil. For the author, Ruchir Sharma, the Brazil fuss has risen and will largely fall with commodities. Br…
June 19, 2012
ChinaIn the most recent July/August issue of Foreign Affairs, many people including Richard Lapper, Larry Rohter, Ronaldo Lemos, and myself respond to Ruchir Sharma’s May/June article “Bearish on Brazil,”…
October 25, 2012
DevelopmentIn an article in the November/December issue of Foreign Affairs, Ruchir Sharma of Morgan Stanley Investment Management punctures the notion that the BRICs--and emerging markets more broadly--are set …
May 27, 2014
IndiaIndia did not produce Horatio Alger, but it certainly has produced a Horatio-Alger story: Narendra Modi. Yesterday the son of a poor tea seller took the oath of office as India’s fourteenth (or fifte…
March 22, 2012
IndiaSouth Asia is among the least economically integrated regions of the world, in part because partition cleaved apart various natural economic communities. Regions, such as Bengal, which had been well …
August 31, 2011
AsiaA girl of Myanmar heritage holds a placard during a pro-democracy rally in New Delhi August 8, 2011 (Parivartan Sharma/Courtesy Reuters). Over the past two months, a number of events in Burma have r…
May 5, 2011
Sub-Saharan AfricaA member of the All India Anti-Terrorist Front (AIATF) gestures in front of a portrait of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden during a pro-U.S. rally as the group celebrates bin Laden's killing, in N…
October 2, 2011
ChinaCommuters on a suburban train during the morning rush hour in Mumbai.Danish Siddiqui/Courtesy Reuters. My latest column is out in India’s financial daily, the Business Standard. I used this …
