PREVAILING COUNTRY RISKS definition
PREVAILING COUNTRY RISKS means all factors reasonably related to the systemic risk of holding Foreign Assets in a particular country, including but not limited to, such country's political environment; economic and financial infrastructure (including any Eligible Foreign Securities Depositories operating in the country); prevailing or developing custody and settlement practices; laws and regulations applicable to the safekeeping and recovery of Foreign Assets held in custody in that country; and factors compromising "prevailing country risk", including the effects of foreign law on the safekeeping of Fund assets, the likelihood of expropriation, nationalization, freezing or confiscation of the Fund's assets and any reasonably foreseeable difficulties in repatriating the Fund's assets.