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"Emerging markets are an increasingly important area of corporate strategy and fast becoming the driver of global growth. Today, emerging markets account for 40% of global GDP and are experiencing growth rates two or three times faster than developed economies. Not surprisingly, investment activity in emerging market jurisdictions has been frenetic with developed-world firms having invested more than $3 trillion, making it one of the biggest corporate investment cycles since the railway boom of the 19thcentury. Emerging Markets and Sovereign Risk provides case studies, commentary and analysis of investment and financial aspects of emerging market investment from international experts inside Standard & Poor's, Moody's, global investment funds, corporations and academia, and covers keys issues such as credit rating agencies and the rating process, risk assessment and pricing of sovereign debt, challenges related to foreign direct investment in emerging countries, capital flows in frontier, emerging and less-mature economies, structuring debt and equity investments in 'non-investment grade' countries, key value drivers in emerging market asset classes, sovereign wealth funds and emerging market investment, and considerations in the management of sovereigncredit ratings"--
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David E. Allen, University of South Australia, Australia
Astrid Ayala, Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Guatemala
Banita Bissoondoyal-Bheenick, Monash University, Australia
Robert Brooks, Monash University, Australia
Szabolcs Blazsek, Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Guatemala
Marie Cavanaugh, Standard & Poor's, USA
David Chaikin, University of Sydney Business School, Australia
John Chambers, Standard & Poor's, USA
Serge Darolles, Université Paris Dauphine, France
Jérémy Dudek, Université Paris Dauphine, France
Anna Fisher, BAEconomics Pty Ltd., Australia
Brian Fisher, BAEconomics Pty Ltd., Australia
Anna Golab, Edith Cowan University, Australia
Raúl González de Paz, Central Bank of Guatemala, Guatemala
Sean Hinton, Terbish Partners, China
Gaëlle Le Fol, Université Paris Dauphine, France
Max McGraw, Sovereign Group, USA
Jeffrey Manns, George Washington University, USA
R McFall Lamm, Jr, Stelac Advisory Services LLC, USA
Lebogang Mateane, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, USA
Mauro Megliani, Catholic University of Milan, Italy
Albert Metz, Moody's Investors Service, USA
Robert Powell, Edith Cowan University, Australia
Willi Semmler, The New School, USA
Prakash Kumar Shrestha, Nepal Rastra Bank, Kathmandu, Nepal
Dr. Lúcio Vinhas de Souza, Moody's Investor Services, USA
