The future does not belong to emerging markets

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Via Capital Economics:

The conventional view of the long-term prospects for the global economy can be summarised as: EMs good, DMs bad. Like most things, however, we suspect that the conventional view is likely to be wrong.

Last week we published our first Long Term Global Economic Outlook, which sets out forecasts for the major developed and emerging economies out to 2040. You can find it on our website here. A key message is that we don’t share the widespread pessimism over the long-term outlook for developed economies, but that we do think that the consensus view of EMs is overly optimistic.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.