Unlike the period after the global financial crisis, we doubt that we will see a widespread trend of austerity to reduce public sector debt ratios. Nonetheless, austerity will still be undertaken in a few isolated cases, primarily in emerging markets. And in other countries, we may still see redistributive tax rises on the rich to fund higher health spending and support for the less well-off.
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