Hello I'm Simon Long, the finance editor at The Economist, and this is Money Talks coming up this week. The real gender gap is in pensions.

So women work fewer hours than men over the lifetime.

Few years they have less long careers, less well paid jobs and all of that sort of ultimately gets

defacivated in their pension.

And the geophone is causing a buzz in India.

They just want to drive the competitors out of the market. The way they

figure it is this is a winner-takes-all market. But first, the special report in this week's economist covers emerging markets.

These are often seen as risky places to invest, prey to political instability, economic crisis and market volatility.

But do those stereotypes still hold true?

The report's author is Simon Cox, the economist's emerging markets editor,

and he joins us on the line from Hong Kong.

Hello Simon.

Hi.

Why now for a report on emerging markets?

It's a particularly good time to look at emerging markets because the recovery is unusually

broad.

It's not unusually fast, but it's unusually broad. It's not unusually fast but it's unusually broad. There are 24

emerging economies in the most popular stock market index and all of them that have

so far reported their second quarter,

quarter and quarter growth, have reported positive growth.

And that's the broadest recovery that I've seen since 2009.

So I think it's a particularly good time

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