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Credit bubbles deflate – but at the cost of weaker growth

There are encouraging signs that the credit bubbles that had been building in a handful of major EMs are now deflating. But this process has only just begun – and the modest slowdown in credit that we’ve seen so far has already had a marked impact on GDP growth in most of the countries concerned.


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