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More to structural EM weakness than investment behaviour

Our view that EMs have entered a period of structurally weaker growth has started to become the mainstream, but there is a tendency to misdiagnose this as solely a problem of deficient investment. Instead, we believe the slowdown is the result of fading one-offs that pushed up growth in the 2000s. Accordingly, there’s not much that policymakers can do to revive growth.

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