August 23, 2010

A little over a decade ago, China was the world seventh largest economy. In 2007 it passed Germany to become the third largest economy and according to a recent Wall Street Journal, China just surpassed Japan as the second largest economy in the world. Looking at the top ten economies, we find Brazil in eighth place, India in eleventh, Mexico in thirteenth and South Korea fourteenth. The emerging economies move on the size scale is quite dramatic. The emergence of these economies will have a large impact on global politics as well as trade flows and quite correctly, the pundits are now focusing on how these changes may affect the direction of the world economy. Do the current allocation to China and other emerging economies underestimate their true importance to the global economy?

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