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Why this time really is different

The recent turmoil in EM financial markets has invoked comparisons to the debt crises of the 1980s and 1990s but these look wide of the mark. Those crises had their roots in large external financing vulnerabilities but – Turkey and Argentina aside – the risks facing most EMs today are much lower.

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