See: Mature Industry. Same idea. Just with a country.
Like...the U.S. is a pretty mature economy. We still grow, albeit not very fast. Engliand's economy is an even slower grower. And Italy's economy is shrinking. Think: beyond mature...like, one-foot-in-the-grave mature.
The opposite would be something like an emerging market, like China was 20 years ago, or like Indonesia probably is today, if their government's corruption doesn't spoil the party for its people.
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finance a la shmoop. what are emerging markets? well a market is any place in
which you buy stuff, like Nasdaq or a Safeway store, or your enterprising
friends online edible underwear business. well the above are mature markets or [edible underwear website shown]
economically mature anyway. emerging markets are generally new players to a
given area of interest. today Latin America is becoming a mature market it
even hosted an Olympics. but thirty years ago still reeling from corrupt dictators
in various flavors Latin America was emerging. after the war in Vietnam was
done and the Napalm had been hosed off that smiling seagulls, this entire region [napalm exploding]
became a market that investors took seriously as they came to leverage their
relatively educated and industrious workforces who assembled computer [factory workers put together products]
circuit boards portable CD players and those weird electronic dogs that were
pretty sure can see into your soul. well the concept of emerging markets also
applies to product areas it doesn't just have to be a geography you know a
country or countries. in 1995 the internet itself was an emerging product
market. it had never existed before. it was very small for about oh five [America online pictured]
minutes. and then it emerged. today there are essentially zero businesses that
aren't internet businesses. it has emerged.
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