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Our annual look at M&A sentiment around the world shows that the shift in acquisitive focus amongst businesses uncovered last year – from domestic to cross-border – is becoming increasingly popular as a key strategy for companies looking to facilitate growth.

Doing business in Brazil an interview with Paulo Dortas

The outlook has improved somewhat since the ANC’s Manguang conference at the end of last year. It is encouraging for business leaders to see the adoption of the national development plan, with various measures to tackle unemployment, poverty and inequality.

Singapore's economy ranks 36th in the world and has a population of just over 5 million people. The economy is heavily dependent on trade flows and the government is promoting an active industrial strategy designed to diversify and strengthen the economy long-term and upgrade the skills of local workers. Below you can read more information about Singapore and its Global Dynamism Index ranking.

On 18 January, the National Bureau of Statistics in China revealed that the economy’s working-age population shrank by 3.45m in 2012.

On the one hand, the results from our once-every-two-years look at the world’s leading emerging markets were encouraging. Business leaders across the world are looking at international expansion opportunities.

Your questions answered by Nigel Davies, your questions answered by Nigel Davis

Monday night’s news that international lenders had reached an agreement on how to remedy Greece’s bailout programme, thereby releasing a delayed €34.4bn aid payment, was an important step for the future of the eurozone. But as the crisis drags on and growth rates continue to disappoint, the cost to businesses keeps on rising.

The Philippine economy is growing fast. GDP expanded by 6.8% in 2012 and, whilst remittances climbed to a record high of US$23.8 billion in 2012, their share of GDP actually dropped to 8.5%, down from 9% in 2011.

One of the most interesting aspects of our recent Global Dynamism Index (GDI) was the strong performance of mature economies. It was a result Ed Nusbaum described as counterintuitive in that the word dynamism tends to be attributed to faster growing emerging markets such as the BRIC economies.

On-going access to finance is a key issue for high-growth businesses. Those that lack financial firepower may find their growth constrained. Others may encounter problems with cash flow during day to day operations. At the same time the funding landscape has changed drastically since the financial crisis of 2008 – and continues to evolve.

The global economy is going through a very difficult phase. Growth in key emerging markets such as China, Brazil and India is slowing. In the United States, the economy seems to be treading water as everyone waits for the presidential elections in November, despite the looming ‘fiscal cliff’.

Germany is the fourth largest economy in the world and the largest in Europe. The economy has not proved immune from the sovereign debt crisis in the Eurozone but it remains the third largest exporter in the world –in 2014 Germany recorded the largest trade surplus globally. Here's some guidance about expansion into Germany and how it fared in the Global Dynamism Index 2015.

We believe that dynamic organisations need to apply both reason and instinct to decision making. Deciding which markets your business should operate in is no different.

As the fourth largest oil exporter in the world, Canada avoided recession during the financial crisis, but the dramatic and sustained fall in the global oil price leaves all sectors of the economy vulnerable. It's still coming in as the eleventh largest economy in the world in the 2015 Global Dynamism Index and it's home to 35 million people. Below you'll find tools to inform your international expansion.

Home to over 1.2 billion people, India is the ninth largest economy in the world according to the Global Dynamism Index 2015. The low global oil prices have helped lower inflation and a more business-friendly administration is aiming to improve the operating environment. However, there are still concerns around creating jobs for the millions of young people entering the workforce every year and the issue of corruption. Here are resources to help develop your international expansion plans.