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“Great Deceleration” has long since begun

Recent talk of a looming “Great Deceleration” in EM growth has tended to miss the crucial fact that the emerging world has already been slowing for several years. In this Update we summarise five key points that are central to the debate over the outlook for EMs – and explain why the bulk of the slowdown may already have happened.

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