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BBVA advocates abandoning the BRIC acronym

Spanish bank says that its 'Eagles' acronym more fairly reflects the  world's emerging economies

View from Asia: December 2010/January 2011

Despite some predictions of a weakening in east Asia's economic outlook, the region is still still set to record impressive growth across many sectors

China powers into South Africa

Chinese businesses are making their presence felt in South Africa, particularly in the energy sector

Big FDI boost for Malaysia

A $7bn investment in the aluminium sector and $161m in biotech is good news for the Malaysian economy

Investors eye Mongolian growth

Mongolia's mining sector has long been popular with investors, but asset managers are starting to dig deeper to take advantage of the economic boom widely forecast for the country

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After the war: Sri Lanka seeks tourism and FDI boom

The end of decades of violent conflict in Sri Lanka has brought a new lease of life for the country, writes Ginanne Brownell. As tourists start flooding in, so might foreign investors

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Asia drives M&A activity in natural resources

The natural resources sector has seen a year of massive investment, with a record value of mergers and acquisitions in 2010. Much of this demand has come from power-hungry Asia

China outpaces India twofold in Q3 FDI

China received almost twice as much FDI as India in the third quarter of 2010, according to data from fDi Markets

Vietnam becoming top FDI target

Vietnam is thriving as a destination for FDI, with investment projects growing steadily since 2007

Think Tank: The rise of China as an outward investor

Stephen Goldsmith and Daniel Wagner chart the meteoric rise in China’s outward investment and analyse how it is impacting on both the global economy and China's relationships with other nations