The upshot of major financial dislocation is that the world may become excessively dependent on the spending of one economic superpower to keep growing. Today, it is China. If the parallel to the late 1990s does indeed play out in the reverse, then the volatility of the past few weeks was just another twist to the otherwise unchanged tale that this decade belongs to emerging markets.
The writer is head of emerging markets at Morgan Stanley Investment Management
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