At the Emerging Markets Forum in October 2010, initial results were presented from an exercise that attempted to measure the resilience of emerging market and developing countries (EMDCs) to deal with shocks to their economies. This paper updates, improves upon, and draws conclusions from that...

The current global economic slowdown is unprecedented in scale and has severe implications on policy formulation among emerging market economies. A prolonged period of sub-par growth driven by the substantial weakening of the financial sectors will have multiple effects on these economies. In...

This article is an updated version of the article “Financial Wealth: Sustained but High Gains and a Collapse for the Ages: An Estimate of Cycles of Buildup and Destruction of Wealth 2002–2009†from the January 2010 issue of the Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies (Loser...