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Prologue: I'd like to ask you some questions about events that happened during your childhood. This information will allow us to better understand problems that may occur early in life, and may help others in the future. This is a sensitive topic and some people may feel uncomfortable with these questions. At the end of this section, I will give you a phone number for an organization that can provide information and referral for these issues. Please keep in mind that you can ask me to skip any question you do not want to answer. All questions refer to the time period before you were 18 years of age. Now, looking back before you were 18 years of age---.

This article describes the challenges and opportunities of marketing in an emerging economy, focusing on Brazil as an exemplar. The main features of the Brazilian economy are discussed with special attention given to the changing nature of the country ' s income distribution. Where Brazil once had a pyramid-shaped income distribution typical of many less developed countries, this is rapidly giving way to a diamond-shaped income distribution due to the emergence of a growing middle class. This, in turn, presents marketers with many opportunities ranging from franchise development to e-commerce. At the same time, however, marketers are challenged by several features of the Brazilian economy, including poor logistics, corruption, and state interventionism, among other threats.Manuel Montoya is an associate professor of global structures and an interdisciplinary scholar of globalization and the factors that produce a global political economy. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a Rhodes Scholar. He is the CEO of his own global consulting fi rm, In Medias Res Consulting, which has provided support to global NGOs and INGOs, including the United Nations and UNESCO. His research interests focus on the circumstances that produce globalization and how nation-states interact with new global challenges.

The link between information and communications technology (ICT) and corruption has been discussed by a few authors, yet a macro‐level analysis of the link coupled with an examination of the link between ICT, stage of economic development, and countries' specific factors has not been fully explored. With panel data of 147 countries over a seven‐year period from 2013 to 2019, we find that countries that have transitioned from a natural‐resource‐based to an innovation‐driven, digital economy experience lower levels of corruption. A country's level of corruption is negatively related to ICT measures such as internet penetration and e‐government. Moreover, ICT appears to reinforce the role of press freedom and education in curbing corruption.