Emerging Market Global Players (EMGP)
A major development in the global foreign direct investment (FDI) market over recent years has been the rapid rise of multinational enterprises (MNEs) from emerging markets. In furtherance of its overarching mission, CCSI aims to ensure more sustainable investment by these emerging-market MNEs.
The first step is to develop and strengthen empirical research on emerging-market MNEs and establish a sound basis for understanding and discussing the role of those entities in the world economy by identifying the major players and their salient features and drivers. This is essential because these new players are less well known than their developed-country counterparts, which have been part of the business landscape for many decades. The second step is to focus more closely on understanding and improving the relationship between emerging-market MNEs and sustainable development including, for example, the impacts of these investors on environmental and labor standards in host countries.
The Emerging Market Global Players (EMGP) project, a collaborative effort led by CCSI, brings together researchers on FDI from leading institutions in emerging markets to gather original data from company surveys and additional research and to produce annual reports based on their findings. Those EMGP reports identify the top multinationals from each of a number of emerging markets, provide detailed information on the key features of the firms’ activities abroad, and discuss other issues, including the underlying policy context influencing outward investment from those emerging markets and the impact of the MNEs on sustainable development.
Each report is posted on this website as well as on the website of the partner institution in the relevant country. The information in the reports, including the rankings by foreign assets, will be of interest to researchers, bankers, investors, and the media, as well as to multinational firms in many countries.
Cross-Country Analysis:
EMGP Reports by Country
Current Partner: Beatriz Nofal, Eco-Axis
- 2011 – Argentine multinationals remain industrially diversified and regionally focused
- 2009 – Spanish – Primer ranking de multinacionales Argentinas muestra un patrón
diversificado de empresas exitosas en la internacionalización - 2009 – First Ranking of Argentine multinationals finds diversified successes in internationalization
Current Partner: São Paulo School of Business Administration (EAESP) of Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)
- 2018 – The Top 20 Brazilian Multinationals: A Long Way Out of the Crises
- 2017 – The Top 20 Brazilian Multinationals: Divestment under Crises
- 2016 – Leading Brazilian Multinational Enterprises: Trends in an Era of Significant Uncertainties and Challenges
- 2010 – Brazilian multinationals positive after the global crisis
- 2010 – PR – Brazilian multinationals positive after the global crisis
- 2009 – Ranking of Brazilian multinationals finds internationalization steadily increasing
- 2007 – Brazil’s Multinationals Take Off
Current Partner: United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and Institute of International Studies of the University of Chile (IEI)
Current Partner: School of Business, Central University of Finance and Economics
- 2016 – The Top 20 Chinese Multinationals: Changes and Continued Growth of Foreign Investment
- 2010 – Chinese multinationals gain further momentum
- 2009 – Second ranking survey finds strong growth in the foreign assets of Chinese multinationals
- 2008 – Spanish – Las multinacionales chinas muestran un progreso sostenido
- 2008 – Chinese – 中国跨国企业稳步成长
- 2008 – Chinese Multinationals Make Steady Progress: The first-ever survey of the foreign assets held by large Chinese MNEs
Current Partner: Faculty of International Relations, Prague University of Economics and Business
Current Partner: ICEG European Center
- 2015 – Hungarian Multinationals in 2013 – A Slow Recovery after the Crisis?
- 2013 – A Snapshot of the Leading Hungarian Multinationals 2011
- 2012 – MOL Group, the petrol company, continues to lead the ranking of Hungarian multinationals
- 2011 – Hungarian multinationals a strong presence in neighborhood, survey finds
Current Partner: Premila Nazareth Satyanand, foreigndirectinvestment.in and Nonresident Senior Fellow, National Council for Applied Economic Research
Current Partner: Manufacturers Association of Israel and Tel Aviv University
- 2013 – Outward FDI from Israel’s Largest MNEs Continues to Rise in 2011
- 2011 – Israeli multinationals back on track after a difficult year
- 2010 – II – Crisis moderates the expansion of Israeli multinationals
- 2010 – I – Israel’s leading multinationals continue to expand domestically and abroad despite the crisis
- 2009 – Ranking of Israeli MNEs
- 2008 – Israeli Multinationals Rise in Foreign Markets: Release of the first ranking of Israeli multinational enterprises
Current Partner: Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS), Seoul National University
Current Partner: Institute for Economic Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- 2019 – Uncertain Expectations of Mexican-American Economic and Trade Relations and Slowdown of Overall Mexican FDI. Click here to access the report highlights.
- 2017 – The Uneven Trends of Mexican MNEs: Between sluggishness and strength in the international markets text report and infogram, with information about ESG reporting and performance
- 2015 – Changing Characteristics of Large Mexican Multinationals during Legal Reforms
- 2013 – Updated Features of Large Mexican Multinationals, 2012
- 2013 – Taking Advantage of the Crisis: The Performance of Mexican Multinationals during 2011
- 2011 – Striving to overcome the economic crisis: Progress and diversification of Mexican multinationals’ export of capital
- 2010 – PR – Impact of global crisis on Mexican multinationals varies by industry, survey finds
- 2010 – Impact of global crisis on Mexican multinationals varies by industry, survey finds
- 2009 – First ranking survey of Mexican multinationals finds great diversity of industries
Current Partner: Institute for Market, Consumption and Business Cycles Research
Current Partner: Alexey Kuznetsov, Acting Director, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INION RAN)
- 2013 – Global Expansion of Russian Multinationals after the Crisis: Results of 2011
- 2011 – Investment from Russia stabilizes after the global crisis
- 2009 – Russian multinationals continue their outward expansion in spite of the global crisis
- 2008 – Emerging Russian Multinationals
- 2007 – Russian Multinationals Bullish on Foreign Markets
Current Partner: University of Ljubljana, Center of International Relations
Current Partner: School of Economics, Potchefstroom, North-West University
Current Partner: Istanbul Aydın University and the Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEIK)
Current Partner: Zayed University
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the World Bank
Current EMGP partner institutions:
- Argentina: Beatriz Nofal, Eco-Axis
- Brazil: São Paulo School of Business Administration (EAESP) of Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)
- Chile: United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and Institute of International Studies of the University of Chile (IEI)
- China: School of Business, Central University of Finance and Economics
- Colombia: Universidad Externado de Colombia
- Czechia: Faculty of International Relations, Prague University of Economics and Business
- Egypt: American University in Cairo
- Hungary: ICEG European Center
- India: Premila Nazareth Satyanand, foreigndirectinvestment.in
- Israel: Manufacturers Association of Israel and Tel Aviv University
- Republic of Korea: Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS), Seoul National University
- Mauritius: Board of Investment, Mauritius
- Mexico: Institute for Economic Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Poland: Institute for Market, Consumption and Business Cycles Research
- Russia: Alexey Kuznetsov, Acting Director, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INION RAN)
- Slovenia: University of Ljubljana, Center of International Relations
- South Africa: School of Economics, Potchefstroom, North-West University
- Turkey: Istanbul Aydın University and the Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEIK)
- United Arab Emirates: Zayed University