See: Mature Industry. Same idea. Just with a country.
Like...the U.S. is a pretty mature economy. We still grow, albeit not very fast. Engliand's economy is an even slower grower. And Italy's economy is shrinking. Think: beyond mature...like, one-foot-in-the-grave mature.
The opposite would be something like an emerging market, like China was 20 years ago, or like Indonesia probably is today, if their government's corruption doesn't spoil the party for its people.
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Finance: What is maturity?1 Views
Finance allah shmoop What is maturity and oh yes the
irony asking someone It shmoop to read about maturity but
we'll do our best here So maturity what is it
Well it's just the date when a debt becomes do
You buy a thousand dollar bond with a maturity date
of may thirty one twenty twenty five Also what happens
on may thirty one twenty twenty five Well that's the
date you'll get your grand back and you'll have the
interest for that period as well So if you had
a six percent bond on that last payment may thirty
one twenty twenty five trivia question how much would you
get back Yes ah thousand dollar principle You'd get returned
but you'd also get what What yes the final payment
of thirty bucks right cause bonds pay interest twice a
year six percent sixty dollars a year You get that
thirty bucks back and that'd be the end of it
We love the semester system here it's from up We're
hoping we can age beyond the seventh grade level that
we seemed to live at here pretty soon for said
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