Sarah Boumphrey, Head of Countries and Consumers at Euromonitor, discusses the reasons behind the world’s fastest and slowest growing economies of 2013. The fastest growing economies are all African and the slowest growing economies are located in Europe – all of which will end 2013 with smaller economies than they started with. Sarah also explores the largest and smallest countries in terms of discretionary spending, internet usage and business environments.  

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