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Liability Management: Derivatives Peers' vote - Results Index Page

Capital raising: Equity Peers' vote - Results Index Page

Capital raising: Equity Peers' vote - Results Index Page

Ireland has transformed its economy in recent years, luring multinational companies by offering low taxes and well-educated labour. Its participation in European economic and monetary union has also been an attraction. The economy has boomed. Ireland is running budget surpluses and paying down its debt out of privatization proceeds. But being a small nation in euroland also brings difficulties, like wholly inappropriate interest rates. The Irish economic miracle could be heading for disaster -- extraordinary rates of growth could well lead on to rampant inflation. Nick Kochan reports

In the past six months international investors have differentiated central and eastern European countries they once grouped together. Economic performance and market development have varied widely, partly reflecting how badly each country was hit by the Russian crisis. The gap between the richest and poorest is growing, and there is increasing polarization between the first wave of applicants to the EU (Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Estonia, Slovenia), the second (Bulgaria, Romania, Slovak Republic, Lithuania, Latvia), and the former Soviet republics. Rebecca Bream reports on Poland, a leader in attracting foreign interest.

Capital raising: Borrowers vote - Results Index Page

Euromoney received replies from 36 economists at leading financial and economic institutions. They gave each country's economic performance for 2000 and 2001 a score out of 100. The world's fastest-growing, best-performing economy in an ideal year would score 100; the worst economy in a disastrous year would score zero. Respondents were asked to consider economic growth, monetary stability, current-account/budget deficit or surplus, unemployment and structural imbalances. Economists also gave their GNP growth forecasts for 2000 and 2001. Our thanks go to the 50 political analysts and economists who took part in our survey. Those happy to be named are:

Eisuke Sakikabara, alias Mr Yen, retired last month as Japan's vice finance minister for international affairs. A forthright bureaucrat who kept the market on its toes with his timely comments, his career path was not typical of MoF officials and included a period in academia. A fluent English-speaker, he talked to Steven Irvine shortly after he stepped down. The only thing he wouldn't discuss was the way the yen was heading - something of a paradox given that the currency was formerly his favourite subject.

Capital raising: Borrowers vote - Results Index Page

Capital raising: Equity Peers' vote - Results Index Page

Brazilian institutions dominate the ranks of Latin America's largest banks by shareholder equity. But this ranking compiled by Fitch IBCA is based on the latest full-year figures, 1998, and is converted into dollars at last year's exchange rate. It therefore provides a snapshot of the sector just before Brazil's January devaluation. Next year's list may include a stronger showing by Mexican and Argentine banks

Liability Management: Derivatives Peers' vote - Results Index Page