Emerging Markets in Transition: Growth Prospects and Challenges

Author/Editor:

Luis M. Cubeddu ; Alexander Culiuc ; Ghada Fayad ; Yuan Gao ; Kalpana Kochhar ; Annette J Kyobe ; Ceyda Oner ; Roberto Perrelli ; Sarah Sanya ; Evridiki Tsounta ; Zhongxia Zhang

Publication Date:

June 12, 2014

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

After a short-lived slowdown in the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis and a swift rebound, emerging markets (EM) are now entering a period of slower growth. In fact, growth is now lower than the post-crisis peak of 2010-11, as well as the rates seen in the decade before the crisis. This raises the question of whether EMs can bounce back to the growth rates seen in the last decade or whether their prospects are dimmer than thought a few years ago. This SDN we will explore the drivers of the slowdown, how changes in external conditions that supported high growth in EMs will affect them over the medium term, and the policy priorities needed to sustain the growth rates seen in the past decades. In doing so, the paper differentiates EMs along various dimensions (e.g. degree of commodity dependence, trade and financial openness) to highlight the need to tailor policy priorities.

Series:

Staff Discussion Notes No. 2014/006

Subject:

English

Publication Date:

June 12, 2014

ISBN/ISSN:

9781498327664/2617-6750

Stock No:

SDNEA2014006

Pages:

37

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