Emerging markets 250 2002: Growth spurt belies global gloom

results:

  1 to 50

 51 to 108 

 109 to 166

 167 to 222

 223 to 250

Methodology

EMERGING-MARKET INVESTORS remain confident that lacklustre recovery in the advanced economies will not undermine the growth prospects of such economies as Korea, Mexico and southeast Asian countries. Eastern Europe has also surged, with Russia in the lead.

Korean banks made big gains in our rankings. A resurgence in consumer spending has resuscitated an economy weakened last year by global IT retrenchment. Even without mergers, many Korean banks registered hefty profit increases last year.