Frontier market stocks

In 1992, Farida Khambata, an official at the International Finance Corporation, coined the term frontier markets for nations with smaller market capitalization and less liquidity than nations classified as emerging markets.

Frontier market indexes
FTSE, MSCI, and S&P provide indexes of frontier market stocks. The constituent country markets are included in the table below.

Data sources
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MSCI

 * [http://www.msci.com/resources/factsheets/index_fact_sheet/msci-frontier-markets-100-index.pdf MSCI Factsheet}
 * iShares MSCI Frontier 100 Index Fund

S&P

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