The mooted $650bn allocation of IMF Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) that looks close to being signed off would provide welcome relief to some smaller frontier markets such as Ghana and Kenya that still face very high foreign borrowing costs. But it won’t solve the underlying problems in those EMs where debt dynamics look unsustainable, including Ethiopia and Argentina.
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