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Emerging Markets in Transition: Growth Prospects and Challenges

Luis Cubeddu, Alexander Culiuc, Ghada Fayad, Yuan Gao, Kalpana Kochhar, Annette Kyobe, Ceyda Oner, Roberto Perrelli, Sarah Sanya, Evridiki Tsounta and Zhongxia Zhang

No 2014/006, IMF Staff Discussion Notes from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: SDN; EMs Decelerating Simultaneously; EM growth; commodity; interest rate; emerging markets; growth; potential growth; convergence; heterogeneity; structural reform; productivity; commodity-exporting EMs; value chain; physical capital; trading partner growth; commodity dependence; export-oriented EMs; excess demand; productivity gain; Total factor productivity; Commodity prices; Global financial crisis of 2008-2009; Global; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37
Date: 2014-06-12
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