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Making sense of the EM sell-off

The rout in EM financial markets is generating increasingly hysterical headlines with many commentators seemingly fighting to outdo one another with predictions of doom and gloom for emerging economies. This is overblown. As we have warned for some time, the major EMs have entered a period of permanently weaker growth. But forecasts of the impending financial collapse ofthe emerging world are well wide of the mark.

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