Is globalisation emerging markets' biggest enemy?

Country selection is key

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Foreign direct investment in emerging market factories and supply chains, because of their comparative advantage in cheap labour, have created excess capacity, diluting emerging countries' earnings and return on equity, says Sandra Crowl, member of the investment committee at Carmignac Gestion.

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