Should we worry about the rise in EM public debt?

The IMF’s latest Fiscal Monitor has put the rise in EM public debt over the past decade back under the spotlight. While debt ratios have increased across most of the emerging world, major vulnerabilities are concentrated in a few relatively small countries, such as Venezuela, Ukraine, Bahrain and Oman.

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