The Center for
Emerging Economies

Centralizing resources, filling knowledge gaps and supporting policymakers across emerging markets

Thesis

Development in emerging markets requires accessible data, novel policy instruments, and access to more sustainable capital than is currently available.

About the Center

Programs

To address gaps in knowledge creation, dissemination, and use, the center engages in data production, demand-driven research, and training & development for future policymakers

Demand-Driven Research

Aligning our research agenda with the needs of policymakers and private entities in EMs allows us to bridge important gaps for capacity constrained public sectors

Data Products

Creating novel datasets for understudied research areas, aggregating and enriching existing sets, and disseminating data to empower policymakers and researchers

Training and Development

Early career and graduate student volunteers are connected to training curricula, mentors, and real consulting projects with public sector-clients

Active Projects

Live Data Products

Four trackers and indices covering the most consequential structural dynamics in emerging markets.

Critical Minerals & Supply Chain

EM Coverage Tracker

Yuan Internationalization Tracker

Illicit Labor Market Vulnerability Index

Emerging Insights

Opinion·Dec 2025

Opinion: How Oil Went from Kazakhstan's Greatest Asset to Biggest Liability

For three decades, oil was the engine of Kazakhstan's post-Soviet prosperity, lifting it to middle-income status and turning it into a darling of frontier market investors. Today, that same oil is the source of a deepening national crisis.

Working Paper·Sep 2025

Sovereign Growth Models at a Crossroads: Navigating a New Global Economic Landscape

Emerging economies face a structural inflection point as the export-led growth paradigm that defined the last three decades shows diminishing returns.

Opinion·Aug 2025

A Real Scarcity Trade Is Underneath This EM Bounce

The current emerging market rally obscures a more durable structural shift in commodity-linked sovereign credit.

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The Center forEmerging Economies