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Global Financial Crisis: Part III?

The recent problems in many emerging markets have revived fears that the world is only now entering a ‘third leg’ of the global financial crisis (GFC) – the first being the meltdown in the sub-prime mortgage market in the US in 2008 and the second the near-collapse of the eurozone in 2011-12. However, concerns about the fallout from surging debts in developing economies are – mostly – overdone.

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