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Structural improvements mean EMs have more fiscal leeway

The structure of public finances across emerging markets has improved over the past couple of decades. As such, while EM governments that have experienced large blowouts in budgets can’t postpone fiscal adjustment indefinitely, most are now under less pressure to tighten policy at a time their economies are already weak.

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