Assignment 2:
Discussion—Explaining Emerging Markets and Their Importance
In this
assignment, you will discuss the concept of emerging markets in your words. If
someone asked you to explain the concept of an emerging market, what would you
tell them? Moreover, it is important to know how emerging markets affect the
world as well as America financially, politically, and legally.
An emerging
market as defined by Kvint (1999) is a country that is transitioning from a
dictatorship to a free market. Emerging markets are important to America’s
economy because emerging markets are part of a hedge funds for investors (there
are more than one hedge fund for emerging markets). This emerging market hedge
funds reached $121 billion in the first quarter of 2011; thereby demonstrating
the popularity for investors, but also showing what emerging markets are doing
domestically and globally.
Using the module
readings, Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet, do the
following:
Explain in your
own words what an emerging market is.
Explain why
emerging markets are important in today’s global economic markets.
Explain the
implications of emerging markets on America’s financial future. Do emerging
markets affect America’s financial, political, or legal future? How?
Write your
initial response in a minimum of 200–300 words. Apply APA standards to the
citation of sources.
