The dramatic 2020 US election is finally behind us, but 2021 is not lacking in global political activity of which investors should be aware. For example, the new year brought a busy docket of upcoming elections across various emerging markets (EM) countries. Figure 1 provides our EM debt team’s 2021 election calendar and assessment of the risk of populism in each case.
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