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Ruchir Sharma

Global economics, politics and strategy. More

Global economics, politics and strategy. More

Ruchir Sharma is the head of emerging markets and chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. He drew on his extensive global travels for the books “Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles” and “The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World.”

Mr. Sharma started writing at the age of 17 for India’s main economic daily newspaper, The Economic Times. His work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times. Bloomberg Markets named him one of the 50 most influential people in the world in 2015. He is a dedicated sprinter who represented India at the 2011 World Masters Athletics Championships. He lives in and works out of New York.

The opinions expressed in this essay are the author’s alone.

  1. Which Developing Economies Will Rise After the Pandemic?

    The crisis has created many obstacles to growth, but also some opportunities.

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  2. Pound for Pound, Taiwan Is the Most Important Place in the World

    Its excellence in the computer chip market puts it at the center of the battle for global technological supremacy.

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  3. Is Vietnam the Next ‘Asian Miracle’?

    The country is making autocratic capitalism work unusually well.

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  4. Is the Stock Market Rooting for Trump or Biden?

    Neither. Wall Street is not as partisan as you think.

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  5. Why Is Everyone Buying Gold?

    It’s one of the best performing assets in the world this year. That’s not a great sign.

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  6. Which Country Will Triumph in the Post-Pandemic World?

    Hint: It’s not the United States or China.

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  7. The Rich Love India’s Lockdown. For the Poor It’s Another Story.

    Estimates show the lockdown is pushing tens of millions of Indians below the poverty line.

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  8. The Pandemic Isn’t Changing Everything

    It is just speeding up trends that were already underway.

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  9. Some Countries Face an Awful Question: Death by Coronavirus or by Hunger?

    The pandemic makes it nearly impossible in some places to social distance and to get food at the same time.

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  10. This Is How the Coronavirus Will Destroy the Economy

    This once-in-a-century pandemic is hitting a world economy saddled with record levels of debt.

    By Ruchir Sharma