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Long-Term Finance in EMEs: Navigating between Risks and Policy Choices

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Emerging market economies (EMEs) are making important strides in developing long-term finance capital market vehicles to support investment in strategic areas such as infrastructure. However, since last year, EMEs have suffered from big shifts in terms of market sentiment. While EMEs’ prospects were clearly overhyped in the wake of the crisis, the bleak forecasts that dominated headlines in the second half of last year were similarly exaggerated. There are still a number of factors indicating that EMEs’ role in the global economy will continue to grow—just not as rapidly or dramatically as previously thought.

Read the latest Economic Premise by Anderson Caputo Silva, Catiana García-Kilroy, and me to know more.

 


Authors

Otaviano Canuto

Executive Director, International Monetary Fund

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