Emerging market economies and sustainable development of global economies-challenges and opportunities
Authors: Dr.S. Thirunavukkarasu and T.Lakshmi Pradha
Date: January-March 2023
Page Numbers: 35-45
Issue: 15
Volume: 10
Abstract : Emerging Market Economies (EMDE) are facing challenges and the performance of the
Large Emerging Market (LME) economies are also with issues of concern and makes global
development a fix. The global slowdown and financial crisis bring uneven development. Adding
to this, epidemics like COVID-2019 also pushed the world economies down by at least 0.04
percent with its cascading effects to come in the future. The trade positions in the EMDE regions
were weak due to uncertainties and lower demand for commodities. The financial markets were
in stress, investment has reduced, lower capital, low productivity, lesser business climate etc., in
the EDMEs. The real GDP of EDMEs is expected to grow an average of 6.2 percent during
2017-21 and it is 0.3 percent lower than 2016 position. Advanced economies perform
comparatively lower in the world output. The output of Emerging and Developing Asian
countries output was 6.6 percent in 2017 and it declined to 6.4 percent in 2019.

