Top emerging markets possess these

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Consulting firm McKinsey recently published an extensive study of winning emerging markets and their shared characteristics. The seven countries identified as long-term winners managed to increase their GDP per capita between 1965-2016 by more than 3.5% per year. According to McKinsey, some of the important drivers of success for long-term winners, like China and South Korea, were as follows: • A pro-growth policy agenda, which supported fixed investments in infrastructure and capital equipment. This promoted competition and innovation resulting in high employment and income growth; that, in turn, buoyed domestic demand and a rising middle class. • Highly competitive and large domestic companies that are also able to successfully compete with foreign companies. These firms are bold innovators and quick decision-makers; they’re also aggressively pursuing growth outside of their home markets. Recent outperformers include Vietnam, India, Azerbaijan, and Ethiopia, which managed to increase their gross domestic product per capita by more than 5% per year for the past 20 years. years…