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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: EMs in an era of low oil prices

The sharp fall in oil prices will provide a welcome boost to growth in the majority of emerging economies in 2015, but at the cost of slower growth in much of the Middle East and deepening crises in a handful of EMs, notably Russia and Venezuela. The net result is likely to be that aggregate EM growth is broadly unchanged from last year.

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