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Beware of the bliss from capital flows

Generous monetary stimuli from central banks around the world following the global financial crisis have made financial markets flush with liquidity.

Frontier economies such as ours are experiencing large inflows of capital that has in most cases led to inflated asset prices and driven up exchange rates in some countries.

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