Emerging economies — Solid growth, limited room for manoeuvre

About this episode

The episode discusses the public finances of emerging economies in 2025, focusing on growth challenges and opportunities.

In today’s discussion, we delve into the public finances of emerging economies in 2025, based on an exclusive analysis of our most recent EcoPerspectives issue focused on these economies. With robust but slowing growth, rising public debt and limited fiscal flexibility, what challenges and opportunities lie ahead for these countries? That's what we're going to explore with Hélène Drouot, an expert on Latin America and Lucas Plé, who specialises in sub-Saharan Africa https://economic-research.bnpparibas.com/Home/en-US Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

People in this episode

Guests: Hélène Drouot, Lucas Plé

Topics covered

• emerging economies
• public finances
• economic growth
• fiscal policy
• public debt
• Latin America
• sub-Saharan Africa

Keywords

• emerging economies
• public finances
• economic growth
• fiscal flexibility
• public debt
• Latin America
• sub-Saharan Africa

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Organizations: BNP Paribas Economic Research

Places: Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa

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