If oil prices were to remain at their elevated levels, they could push current account and budget balances into surplus in many of the EM producers. It would also ease any concerns about dollar pegs in the Gulf, although we think the currencies of Angola and Nigeria will still need to weaken. For importers, it would add to growing external vulnerabilities in parts of Latin America and Emerging Europe.
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