Introduction

THE WORLD IS FOCUSED on emerging markets.1 The liberalization, growth, and globalization of these still-nascent economies have made them tremendous sources of interest, opportunity, and anxiety over the past twenty years. For households, emerging markets are a source of cheap consumer goods. For frustrated computer users, they are often the location of outsourced technical support. For executives of multinationals, emerging markets are growth drivers amid stagnation and financial crisis in developed economies—and the home turfs of powerful new corporate competitors.

In the first six months of 2009, the FTSE International Emerging Markets Index was up 41.1 percent, whereas the FTSE All World Developed Markets Index was up 7.2 percent. ...

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