Emerging markets should watch fiscal positions

Emerging-market economies should pay off their debts sooner rather than later, posits new research from the Bank of England.

The research finds that, despite benign external conditions over the past decade, government debt still remains very high relative to GDP in many emerging-market economies and is often financed to a large extent by the domestic banking system, placing the banking sector at risk. The research warns that, in the case of a sovereign-debt crisis, output losses tend to be

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