they have low-cost factors of production, not just low waejs, but they also have cheaper engineers, cheaper designers, and the entire process is streamlined to suchave agree that they can develop better profits and generate better profit growth with the same revenue growth than developed market companies. >> tom: is the trajectory sustainable? >> it is sustainable, and one of the great myths of this crisis is that emerging market companies and economies, as you've been talking about all week are, more vulnerable. we did not see one currency topple over completely, as we did in the asian crise just 10 years ago and i think that's a sign these economys are maturing tremendous he. >> tom: talk about the internal economies, something we have been focusing on all week on n.b.r. many are outward looking, making much of their money by exporting products and services. the. >> the domestic economy is coming in all of these companies. the domestic stocks in many of these markets have done very, very well-- the beverage stocks, the food stocks, the retail stocks-- from china to india to russia. so the