Has investors’ appetite for EM government bonds waned?

The credit spread of the JP Morgan EMBI Global Index of emerging market dollar-denominated government bonds has increased sharply since the middle of 2014. However, this reflects specific concerns about a small number of troubled countries, rather than any major worries about the credit worthiness of emerging market governments in general.

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