The outlook for capital inflows to emerging economies and developing countries remains moderately positive. Overall, net capital inflows are projected to stay at the same level in 2015 and slightly increase in 2016. However, abrupt changes in investor sentiment regarding geopolitical tensions, ongoing monetary policy shifts in the United States, and further divergence of the monetary policy stances of the major central banks might significantly affect portfolio flows. As was also illustrated towards the middle of 2013, a retrenchment in capital flows can have widespread impacts, especially in emerging economies, on exchange rates, foreign reserves, bond yields and equity prices.7 Economic fundamentals seem to provide little insulation in this regard, and the magnitude of the short-term impacts appears to depend more strongly on the size of national financial markets. A sudden stop in capital inflows also stands to significantly affect growth, for example, through a tightening of bank lending.