Macroeconomics

16 Apr 2019  |  Global  |  Mega Trends

The Top Trends, 2019

The Year of 5G, Autonomy, and the Edge

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This report looks at global trends set to make an impact in 2019. Every year Frost & Sullivan's Visionary Innovation Team of futurists, consultants, and analysts scans the short-term horizon and looks across industries to identify areas of disruption in the new year. This year, the power of technology and technology companies has emerged as a key t...

Trade wars roiled the world economy in 2018, and continue to have a detrimental impact in 2019 as well. While the US and China are expected to slow down in 2019, indirect effects of trade wars are also seen to be impacting export-reliant economies such as Germany and Japan. This research has been designed to provide insight into additional tariffs ...

Indonesia is the most populous nation in Southeast Asia with an estimated population of 262 million in 2017. The Indonesian economy, measured in terms of GDP, is the largest in SEA as of 2017. Indonesia’s GDP annual growth stood at 8.4% for 2017 growing from $932.45 billion in 2016 to $1,010.94 billion in 2017. Indonesia’s GDP per capita at cur...

The infrastructure deficit in India is continuing regardless of the relative catch-up in recent years. The Asian Development Bank, in its report titled “Meeting Asia’s Infrastructure Needs", has estimated that $4.40 trillion is needed to fix India’s infrastructure deficit by 2030. That entails more than $250–$300 billion of spending every y...

Economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region slumped from 5.2% in Q4 2017 to 5.0% in Q1 2018, as the escalation of the trade war between China and the United States had repercussions for global trade growth. China’s growth is likely to slump further from the 6.2% registered in Q2 2018, as manufacturing output started declining in Q2 2018. Australia...