"Just getting the macroeconomic fundamentals right isn't enough anymore, " says Masood Ahmed, head of the World Bank's Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network.

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But macroeconomic fundamentals are much healthier in East Asia these days.

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Russia is certainly doing much to improve its macroeconomic fundamentals.

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