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<\/a> Are investors shunning \u201cdemocratic nations\u201d in favour of \u201cstrongmen\u201d who know how to <\/strong>deliver business-friendly results?<\/strong> Countries that practice \u201cstrongman\u201d politics appear to have seen their equities and debt markets garner more interest from investors than those traditionally considered more democratic; or so Karin Strohecker and Marc Jones say in a disappointingly facile analytical piece for Reuters<\/a>. They argue that high-fliers such as China, Egypt, Turkey, and more recently Poland (which elected a nationalist government) illustrate this trend. \"Providing governments are responsible fiscally they can get away with a lot of undemocratic measures,\" said Renaissance Capital global chief economist Charles Robertson. What, then, of Zimbabwe and Venezuela?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are investors shunning \u201cdemocratic nations\u201d in favour of \u201cstrongmen\u201d who know how to deliver business-friendly results? 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