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Some countries may need temporary controls to curb damaging capital outflows, but policymakers should aim for a market-based exchange rate and a solid plan for governing inflation, debt, foreign-exchange reserves, current accounts, and fiscal balances.
But once American households rebuild their retirement accounts, they may return to their profligate ways.
Here, Africa’s youth merit special attention: the survey found that the 16-34 age group already accounts for 53% of income in urban centers.
Five reforms were particularly effective: more flexible exchange rates, larger foreign-currency holdings, less pro-cyclical fiscal policy, stronger current accounts, and less debt denominated in dollars or other foreign currencies.
Moreover, the prospect is not a distant one, but something knocking at the door: population (hence the number of taxpayers) is already declining, the social security accounts are already turning to deficits and 15 years hence the debt mountain will be crushing capital markets.
What accounts for this implacable determination to leave the Greek wound festering under a flimsily applied Band-Aid?
Of every $10 of world trade in information technology, Greece accounts for $0.01.
The World Bank’s latest figures on individuals’ bank accounts, to be released next spring, are expected to show that the number of people holding accounts at banks or other formal financial institutions has grown.
Poor people tend to save more money when they can access bank accounts or make mobile payments.
With bank accounts, budding entrepreneurs can establish their creditworthiness and tap responsible, formal lenders.
For example, less than one-third of education aid goes to Africa, even though the region accounts for almost two-thirds of out-of-school children.
What accounts for staggeringly high rates in the US and Latin America?
In the EU, for example, electricity represents only 22% of final energy demand, while heating and cooling represents 45%; transportation accounts for the remaining 33%.
Yet it accounts for only 2.3% of global CO2 emissions.
Consider this: lighting accounts for 19% of world energy consumption.
Imagine if, thanks to wind and solar, China could wean itself from coal, which accounts for 85% of its carbon emissions.
For example, governments could use individual skill accounts to provide training grants throughout people’s working lives, conditional on stronger private-sector involvement in training and skills development.
Private consumption accounts for only about 37% of China’s GDP – the smallest share of any major economy.
So what accounts for the partisan performance gap?
Because many countries have been consolidating simultaneously, interest rates are already low; and, for the US, which accounts for more than 20% of the global economy and issues the global reserve currency, caution in generalizing from other fiscal episodes is highly advisable.
At the same time, it accounts for the fact that relationships and perceptions cannot be changed overnight, and that rapid, sweeping transformation is not realistic in a country of 1.3 billion people.
It may pile up in bank reserves or savings accounts, or it may produce asset bubbles.
It is an understandable concern: money that the Bank lends to developing countries that ends up in secret bank accounts or finances some contractors’ luxurious lifestyle leaves a country more indebted, not more prosperous.
In August 2001, just before the terrorist attacks on America, the US government vetoed an OECD effort to limit secret bank accounts.
This time, however, it took two years for the external accounts to improve.
In the 22 quarters since early 2008, real personal-consumption expenditure, which accounts for about 70% of US GDP, has grown at an average annual rate of just 1.1%, easily the weakest period of consumer demand in the post-World War II era.
Mugabe and his henchmen have stashed millions of dollars abroad in the past year according to plausible press accounts.
These accounts should be frozen, despite the difficulty in doing so in a world rife with secret banking and nominee accounts that disguise true ownership.
So what accounts for the combination of macro liquidity and market illiquidity?
After all, the country already accounts for more than 12% of global exports, so expanding its share further would probably worsen its terms of trade.
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