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A closer look at international corporate bond issuance

This week’s bumper foreign debt sale by Brazil’s Petrobras has put the spotlight on the fast-expanding overseas market for EM corporate bonds. As it happens, this type of financing is still a small part of the overall universe of EM company debt. Nonetheless, the recent explosion in overseas borrowing adds to our existing concerns about the rapid growth of private sector debt in parts of the EM world.

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