This family is a large group of approximately 400 species including peach, cherry, almond, and plum. They are alternative leaved, deciduous and evergreen shrubs and trees. They can range in size from ground covers to 80 foot-tall trees. Many are grown for their fruit or as ornamentals.
What it is: An emerging market economy describes a nation's economy that is progressing toward becoming more advanced, usually by means of rapid growth and industrialization. These countries experience an expanding role both in the world economy and on the political frontier.
The analysis for the emerging countries and all other countries (Panels B and C) is similar. Many of the other countries have similar economic characteristics to the emerging country sample. Generally, all of the risk rating measures increase over the sample. This is particularly evident over the 1988 to 1993 period.