According to the Annual Report,
- The Emerging World will account for almost four fifths of global growth 2015-25. .
- Of which, the Asia-Pacific region will account for 78.2% of the increase.
- New entrants to the EAGLEs and Nest groups coming mainly from Asia and the Middle East.
- Middle classes will continue to reshape the world’s income distribution.
- Emerging countries are to increase their share of the global middle classes from 58% in 2015 to 75% by 2025. In 2015, China alone has 350.4 million middle-class people, compared with an aggregate of 297.7 million in North America and European advanced countries and 73.5 million in Japan.
- The educational sector will be both the motor and beneficiary of expanding middle classes, counterbalancing the effect of slower growth of labor force.
- Fixed broadband adoption will be driven by Emerging Markets with EAGLEs catching up fast with developed nations, thanks mostly to Emerging Asia.
- Media Sentiment Digital Index for the EAGLEs countries has improved significantly since late 2015, converging to G7 levels with China, India, Egypt and Turkey leading the group.
- Geopolitical risks, cyber-attacks and macroeconomic vulnerabilities are likely to remain the main risks in coming years.
- Asymmetric impact of the oil price decline is likely to impact upon current account balances of EAGLEs and Nest countries.
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