Survey reveals top emerging markets for expat transfers

Relocation company Cartus surveyed over 100 multinational corporations on the main destinations of their employees in the next two years.

Unsurprisingly, the fast-growing "BRIC" countries, Brazil, Russia, India and China, were the most popular emerging markets to send staff to, with China and India taking the top two spots respectively. More than half (53 per cent) of corporations identified China as one of the top countries to which they were relocating workers, while 45 per cent named India.

A number of less well-known emerging markets however were also common destinations, including Vietnam (11th place) and Saudi Arabia (ninth place). Overall, Cartus identified 44 key emerging markets – defined in the study as "locations that have infrastructure, talent or administrative difficulties that require targeted strategies" – which staff were being sent to.

Matt Spinolo, the executive vice president of Cartus, said: “Our 2011 emerging markets survey pointed to a broad range of locations into which companies expect to have relocation volume over the next two years."

Source: The Telegraph