Five years on – what next for the emerging world?

In the five years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, emerging economies have accounted for three-quarters of global growth. This has fed expectations that the emerging world can continue to comfortably outperform. In our view, while emerging economies will still outpace developed economies by a decent margin over the years ahead, the gap between the two will be much narrower than in the recent past.

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