Are EM oil producers on the cusp of a crisis?

A wave of debt defaults and financial stress in emerging market oil producers seems unlikely but, with energy prices set to stay low, growth is likely to be much weaker than most anticipate. Among the major oil economies, Russia is likely to spend another year in recession in 2016, while a period of weaker growth in the Gulf states is only just beginning.

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