Credit Suisse On Why Many Small Countries Are Successful

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Mark Melin
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Calling the rise of small states amid a world of globalization a key megatrend, a new report from Credit Suisse notes a negative correlation between size and a country’s gross domestic product. This was among some of the surprising results in the study that found that, unlike the corporate world, there is not an economy of scale with larger government. UN Human Development Index populated by small countries When factoring the quality of life, and adding factors such as healthcare, education and intangible infrastructure as measures of success, small countries did very well in the study.  In fact half of…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.