Jan Dehn, an economist at Ashmore Group in London, said there are at least four potential candidates to trigger a wider currency war.

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The emerging markets asset class has sustained average annual growth rates of 16% over the past decade, points out Jan Dehn, an economist at Ashmore Group, a large emerging markets investment firm in London.

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