Looking back over the past year, it’s hard to imagine a more perplexing global economic landscape. Oil prices unexpectedly plunged to record lows, global economic expansion slowed, currencies fl uctuated wildly—and then there was China. As the growth rate of the world’s second-largest economy fell amid continued export weakness, a staggering $5.1 trillion in wealth evaporated on the Shanghai Stock Exchange between mid-June and the end of August 2015, resulting in deep economic uncertainty about future GDP growth across the Asia-Pacifi c region and beyond.
Source : Bain & Company