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This book is not likely to have seen the light of day without the help of some very selfless and dedicated people who encouraged me from the initial idea to the last paragraph. Among those are of course my family and my colleagues at Peak Financial Management. But there were others who spent hours on painstaking research and sorting through facts and creating coherence. First and foremost among these is my friend Vikram Kondur, CFA who spent hundreds of hours looking through the data and helping me get the story of these 18 emerging markets on paper. Even though Vikram was moving from the US to India after finishing his MBA at Babson College in Wellesley Massachusetts, he doggedly continued the grind with stubborn enthusiasm until the book was finished. My very sincere thanks to Vikram.

The other people involved in this project also worked long hours, mostly after their day jobs. James Sichenzia is single-handedly responsible for creating most of the charts in the book from streams of data collected with great patience on all of the 18 countries.

Neel Tiku was extremely diligent in helping research the investment portion of the book and in addition provided very helpful critique along the way.

Dennis Lagace was very helpful in providing valuable information as well as charts and graphs for the comparison of countries portion of the book.

My sincere thanks to James, Neel and Dennis.

My thanks are also due to Monica Carbone who helped me with researching the historic and economic backgrounds of many of the countries covered in the book.

Ken Lizotte, a great friend, who helped me in my last book was also very helpful in researching some historical facts presented as a background in the introduction to countries that are covered in the book and also in the initial contacts with our publisher Harriman House.

My very sincere thanks to Myles Hunt at Harriman House who saw value in publishing this work on emerging markets and for his valuable insight. I owe a great deal of personal gratitude to my editor at Harriman House, Craig Pearce, who read the manuscript word by word several times and offered innumerable suggestions which all made the book a lot better for the readers. Thank you Myles and Craig.

At the end I am more than grateful to all the above for helping me to finish this project but want to emphatically express my that any limitations and errors in the book are my own and are not in any way due to the advice and help I received from those listed here.