“An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.”

—  Ian Bremmer

"Managing Risk in an Unstable World," http://custom.hbsp.com/b01/en/implicit/product.jhtml?login=BREM060105&password=BREM060105&pid=1126 Harvard Business Review (June 2005).

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