Made up of Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and South Africa -- these nations, some with sizable populations and others with a wealth of natural resources, could be the economic boomers of the next decade, according to John Bowler, director of Country Risk Service at the Economist Intelligence Unit.
The Economist Intelligence Unit's Country Risk service assesses credit risk across 120 countries.
Risk is different from uncertainty according to the great economist Frank Knight.
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Earnings growth could comfortably recover to 4.5% a year without posing a risk to inflation, says Ben Broadbent, an economist at Goldman Sachs, an investment bank.
In 1921, an economist named Frank Knight drew a distinction between risk and uncertainty.
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The risk to China is on the upside, Barclays Capital economist Yiping Huang has said over the last few months.
When it suits The Economist, it has recently argued that bold risk-taking vision is what is needed in the industry.
John Martin, an economist at Baylor University, reckons that the internal risk management of the trading business was basically sound.
Weekly publications that rely on Saturday delivery (such as The Economist) might have to rethink their production schedule or risk a decline in subscriptions, says Anthony Conway of the Alliance of Non-profit Mailers, an industry group.
The bad economist pursues a small present good that will be followed by a great evil to come, while the good economist pursues a great good to come, at the risk of a small present evil.
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"Investors in the oil and gas sector are used to taking risk and companies take a long-term perspective, " says energy economist, Carole Nakhle from the UK's Surrey Energy Economics Centre (SEEC).
"Stronger growth is absolutely imperative for India because unless the economy is able to create more jobs, we will see the risk of social unrest continue to rise, " said Anjalika Bardalai, an economist with the Eurasia Group.
One company that has considered a merger in the past year is the Trinsum Group, which is itself the product of a union in early 2007 between Marakon, a strategy consultancy, and Integrated Finance, a financial- and risk-consulting company that includes Robert Merton, a Nobel prize-winning economist, among its founders.
As Roberto Bouzas, an economist at Flacso, a Buenos Aires graduate school, argues, the risk facing Mercosur is not one of rupture but of irrelevance.
The late economist Jude Wanniski used to say that all economic growth is the result of risk-taking.
The late economist Jude Wanniski used to say that all economic growth is the result of risk taking.
Research, including work by Nobel-laureate economist Daniel Kahneman, has shown that people prefer lottery tickets to low-risk investments.
"Risk appetite is back on after the strong U.S. data" said Christian Tegllund Blaabjerg, chief economist at FIH Erhvervsbank.
By pooling risk, Eurobonds could be a more durable counter to such destabilising liquidity crises, argues Paul De Grauwe, an economist at the Catholic University of Leuven, in Belgium.
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Lord Rees, along with Cambridge philosopher Huw Price and economist Sir Partha Dasgupta and Skype founder Jaan Tallinn, wants the proposed Centre for the Study of Existential Risk to evaluate such threats.
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