The Vanguard USD Emerging Markets Government Bond UCITS ETF seeks to track the performance of the Index, a widely recognised benchmark designed to reflect the total universe of US Dollar-denominated publically-traded debt (with maturities greater than one year and which have a minimum issue size of US$500 million) issued by sovereign and quasi-sovereign emerging market issuers. Quasi-sovereign issuers include entities that are government guaranteed and/or sponsored, entities that are more than 50% government owned and local authorities.