Private equity is a financing tool uniquely suited to unlocking value in and strengthening the performance of businesses in emerging market countries. Professionally managed private equity funds invest in companies of all sizes, which investors perceive as undervalued and ripe for restructuring, while private equity investors offer their portfolio companies their business expertise. These professionals have the experience and the financial incentives to be active, hands-on partners with a company's management and to strengthen long-term company performance. It is the application of this scarce non-financial, performance enhancing know-how, combined with the injection of capital that makes private equity unique and especially compelling in developing countries.

Drawing heavily on the author's almost four decades of experience as both a practitioner and academician working with private equity investors, entrepreneurs and policymakers in over 100 developing countries around the world, Private Equity Investing in Emerging Markets uses anecdotes and case studies to illustrate and reinforce the key arguments for private equity investment in emerging economies.

私募股权是一种独特的融资工具，适合于在新兴市场国家释放价值和增强企业业绩。专业管理的私募股权基金投资于各种规模的公司，投资者认为这些公司的价值被低估，重组时机已经成熟，而私募股权投资者则为其投资组合公司提供他们的业务专长。这些专业人士拥有丰富的经验和经济激励机制，能够成为公司管理层的积极、务实的合作伙伴，并加强公司的长期绩效。正是这种稀缺的非金融、提高业绩的专门知识的应用，加上资本的注入，使得私人股本在发展中国家具有独特性，尤其引人注目。
作者作为一名实践者和院士，与世界上100多个发展中国家的私人股本投资者、企业家和政策制定者一起工作，近40年来积累了丰富的经验，新兴市场私募股权投资利用轶事和案例研究来说明和加强新兴经济体私募股权投资的关键论点。