Here's what you need to know about emerging markets this week, from the WSJ
News and analysis on the frontier markets
Investors appear to be losing confidence in the ability of Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi to manage the country’s $67 billion economy, Ben Otto and Myo Myo report. A growing chorus of investors are questioning the inexperienced government’s strategy after the country’s economic growth in the latest fiscal year fell to its lowest point since 2011. Part of the slowdown was intentional. For example, new leaders halted a dizzying construction boom in Yangon to review compliance issues, and pushed investment away from petroleum and mining to diversify the economy. And people close to Suu Kyi say she has begun placing more priority on the economy, and that changes are in store. “The next…six months will see that switch to more growth-enhancing policies,” said Sean Turnell, a professor at Macquarie University in Australia and an economic adviser to Suu Kyi. “She completely gets that this really matters.” Pakistan’s political leaders plan to replace ousted prime minister Nawaz S...
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