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Business & Investment Opportunities in Emerging Economies

BRIC is a popular acronym that has been doing the rounds in the last few years. The letters stand for Brazil, Russia, India & China, representing four of the emerging economies.

Amongst these, while China & India appear to be getting the most attention, the other two countries mentioned, as well as a host of smaller emerging economies seem to hold bright future. Simply put, there are over two and a half billion people in just the top 6 emerging economies! That’s a lot of resources.

However, when one gets to the micro-details regarding the exact opportunities available in each country, one finds that more work and research are required.

That is what this section of Billion Dollar Questions plans to do. Analyse the emerging market in depth, and provide a number of resources that can assist the reader in understanding the business opportunities that are available in each.

This page – like all the other pages at BillDoll.com, The Billion Dollar Questions Site — is a work-in-progress and stuff will get added regularly.

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Some of the often asked questions in the context of business opportunities in emerging markets are:

Why should I think about new business opportunities in emerging markets rather in consolidating my existing business opportunities in developed markets? Are there case studies of how companies successfully exploited specific opportunities in emerging markets? What are the pre-requisites required for a company from developed economies to succeed in emerging markets? What are the countries that can be currently classified as emerging markets? What are the countries that have the potential to become the emerging markets in the next 5-10 years? What are the big business opportunities in India? What are the big business opportunities in China? What are the big business opportunities in Brazil? What are the big business opportunities in Russia? What are the key success factors for success in pursuing business opportunities in India? What are the key success factors for success in pursuing business opportunities in Brazil? What are the key success factors for success in pursuing business opportunities in China? What are the key success factors for success in pursuing business opportunities in Russia?

What is an Emerging Economy – from Investopedia Manufacturing Issues – Seizing Opportunities in Emerging Economies – Developing Markets – from Deloitte Energy Investments in Newly Liberalizing Economies – Opportunities & Risks – from Risk World Emerging Opportunities in East Asia in ICT & E-commerce Markets – Ministry of Trade, Government of Australia Does Growth Emerging Economies Provide an Opportunity or Pose a Threat – A PwC Report Trying to Predict the World Order in 2050 Growing Demand for Engineering Services Creates Opportunities for Emerging Economies – Booz Allen Hamilton Report Emerging Markets Research Resources from Pyramid Research Innovations in Emerging Markets — Blog

Investment Opportunities in Russia — IVR Mid-Atlantic Russia Business Council

Business Opportunities in India

Business Opportunities in India – Ideas & Tips – from Stylus Inc Indian Business Opportunities Resources – from KPMG India Business Opportunities Booklet – from Ministry of External Affairs, 2001 report

Business Opportunities in China

Ten Areas Favorable for Overseas Investors — China State Commission of Economics and Trade declares that China encourages overseas investment in the following 10 areas, from China Today China Council for the Promotion of International Trade — CCPIT Hong Kong Trade & Development Council – TDC Trade

General Resources for Emerging Markets

Emerging Markets News & Investing in Emerging Markets — Forbes Emerging Markets – the newspaper of record for the IMF, World Bank and the Regional development bank meetings Emerging Markets News – from Financial Times (FT) Emerging Markets Subject Guide @ Yale University Library EMTA – Trade Association for the Emerging Markets See a map of some emerging markets in Eastern Europe

Content derived from Wikipedia article on Emerging Markets

The term emerging markets is commonly used to describe business and market activity in industrializing or emerging regions of the world. Originally brought into fashion in the 1980s by then World Bank economist Antoine van Agtmael, the term is sometimes loosely used as a replacement for emerging economies, but really signifies a business phenomenon that is not fully described by or constrained to geography or economic strength; such countries are considered to be in a transitional phase between developing and developed status. Examples of emerging markets include China, India, much of Southeast Asia, countries in Eastern Europe, and parts of Africa and Latin America. Emphasizing the fluid nature of the category, political scientist Ian Bremmer defines an emerging market as a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the markets.

The research on emerging markets is diffused within management literature. While researchers including C. K. Prahalad, Hernando De Soto, and several professors from Harvard Business School and Yale School of Management have described activity in countries such as India and China, how a market emerges is little understood.

It appears that emerging markets lie at the intersection of non-traditional user behavior, the rise of new user groups and community adoption of products and services, and innovations in product technologies and platforms.

The term rapidly developing economies is now being used to denote emerging markets such as The United Arab Emirates, Chile and Malaysia that are undergoing rapid growth.

In recent years, new terms have emerged to describe the largest developing countries such as BRIC, BRICS and BRIMC. These countries do not share any common agenda, but some experts believe that they are enjoying an increasing role in the world economy and on political platforms.

Emerging markets

Developed marketsIt is difficult to make an exact list of emerging (or developed) markets; the best guides tend to be investment information sources (like The Economist) or market index makers (such as Morgan Stanley Capital International). These sources are neutral and well-informed, but the nature of investment information sources leads to two potential problems. One is an element of historicity; markets may be maintained in an index for continuity, even if the countries have since developed past the emerging market phase. Possible examples of this are South Korea, Taiwan, Israel, and Czech Republic. A second is the simplification inherent in making an index; small countries, or countries with limited market liquidity are often not considered, with their larger neighbours considered an appropriate stand-in. Some potential smaller emerging markets not listed below include: in Europe: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, and Slovenia; in the Americas: Costa Rica, Panama, Uruguay, and Venezuela; in Asia: Kazakhstan and Vietnam; and in Africa: Nigeria.

As of July 2006, the Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Index included: