Emerging markets feel 'good' - but fail to make up for weakness elsewhere

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Yesterday, UK consultancy Transport Intelligence, in association with Kuwait-headquartered freight firm Agility Logistics, released the third in its annual series of the Emerging Markets Logistics Index, which if anything, illustrated the seemingly endless contradictions in a globalised world struggling to shrug off recession (see chart below).

One of the repeating features in each of the three editions of this series has been the growth prospects of the BRIC counties – and the following 41 nations that the researchers have selected to ...