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What are emerging markets? New markets. New economies. Hyper growth. Elite natural resources. Powerful technology. These are all ingredients of second-world and third-world nations seeking to join the ranks of global superpowers, like China and the U.S. Emerging market nations usually carry huge GDP growth.

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finance a la shmoop. what are emerging markets? well a market is any place in

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which you buy stuff, like Nasdaq or a Safeway store, or your enterprising

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friends online edible underwear business. well the above are mature markets or [edible underwear website shown]

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economically mature anyway. emerging markets are generally new players to a

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given area of interest. today Latin America is becoming a mature market it

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even hosted an Olympics. but thirty years ago still reeling from corrupt dictators

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in various flavors Latin America was emerging. after the war in Vietnam was

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done and the Napalm had been hosed off that smiling seagulls, this entire region [napalm exploding]

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became a market that investors took seriously as they came to leverage their

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relatively educated and industrious workforces who assembled computer [factory workers put together products]

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circuit boards portable CD players and those weird electronic dogs that were

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pretty sure can see into your soul. well the concept of emerging markets also

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applies to product areas it doesn't just have to be a geography you know a

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country or countries. in 1995 the internet itself was an emerging product

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market. it had never existed before. it was very small for about oh five [America online pictured]

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minutes. and then it emerged. today there are essentially zero businesses that

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aren't internet businesses. it has emerged.

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