The authorities in several major emerging markets, including Egypt, Argentina and Nigeria, have taken important policy steps recently that may allow them to ease restrictions on access to foreign currency. But we don’t think that this is the start of a broader trend among EMs that are currently suffering from FX scarcity. If anything, the capital controls that are the root of this problem may become more, not less, common across the emerging world in the coming years.
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