When a rescue team arrived to evacuate a closing zoo near the Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis in late August, just 15 animals remained. They included Laziz, a nine-year-old Bengal tiger that is—according to Four Paws, the Vienna-based animal-welfare nonprofit that led the rescue—the last tiger in Gaza. There were also five monkeys, an emu, a pelican, two buzzards, two porcupines, two tortoises, and a doe. The doe had lost her fawn to wounds shortly before the rescuers arrived.
Igor Purlantov is an expert on business and politics across emerging markets. Mr. Purlantov has worked extensively in various emerging countries throughout Europe, Asia and Africa with both public and private companies as well as local governments. You can read and learn more about his work on www.igor-purlantov.net
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Emerging Markets Are Climbing Back From the Dead
Stocks and bonds from Thailand, Indonesia and other developing economies are emerging from their burrow. After ranking as some of the world's worst investments the last few years, emerging markets have produced some of the best returns of 2016. Gains have been so big for Brazilian bank Banco Bradesco, Chinese technology giant Tencent and emerging-market stocks in general that the average mutual fund invested in them has returned 11.5 percent this year.
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