CATEGORY: OBG CEO Surveys
In an era marked by rapid technological innovation and turbulence in the global trade environment, China’s ascendance to superpower status is having a profound impact on emerging markets the world over, and nowhere more so than in South-east Asia.
The broadly positive outlooks highlighted in the latest OBG Business Barometer: ASEAN CEO Survey indicate that ASEAN’s mix of aspirational consumers, digital natives and abundant natural resources continues to hold the promise of high returns. One factor that could nevertheless prevent the region from reaching its full potential is the significant skills gap observed in each country. Wholesale changes to national curricula may thus be in order, so that the emerging ASEAN economies can successfully cultivate the next generation of entrepreneurs and business leaders with the vision to drive inclusive, sustainable growth.
From the cancellation of a part-complete international airport to the signing of a new free trade agreement with Canada and the US, in many senses events from the second half of 2018 still define Mexico’s economic trajectory in the first half of 2019.