News / Fear of corruption now the biggest obstruction to doing business in emerging markets

Corruption has been identified as the single biggest concern for companies doing business in emerging markets, according to this week’s Agility Emerging Markets Logistics Index.

Corruption displaced last year’s chief concern – poor transport infrastructure – with 16% of respondents globally saying it threatened their operations, although the problem is evidently worse in particular emerging markets.

The index report says: “The economic turbulence experienced in emerging markets over the last 12 months, as well as high-profile corruption scandals in Brazil and Malaysia, ...