The Emerging Markets Podcast with Fexingo: Developing Economies, Growth, and Investment

Every morning, Lucas and Luna dissect the forces reshaping the developing world — from Vietnam’s manufacturing ascent to Nigeria’s fintech revolution. Grounded in fresh data from central bank releases, IMF forecasts, and emerging-market equity flows, each episode examines one specific economy or cross-border trend: Why has India’s services PMI diverged from its manufacturing index? Can Indonesia’s nickel-processing strategy outlast a global EV slowdown? What does the MSCI Emerging Markets ex-China index tell us about supply-chain reconfiguration? Lucas brings the macro framework and historical context; Luna presses on the on-the-ground realities, the political risks, and the investor math. They never make hot takes — they make calibrated arguments, backed by numbers and named companies like HDFC Bank, Nubank, or MercadoLibre. This is for portfolio managers allocating to EM debt, strategists tracking de-dollarization, and anyone who wants to understand development economics without the