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Such requirements would not prevent useful capital flows: global banking groups could invest equity in emerging markets and fund their subsidiaries’
balance
sheets with long-term debt.
Emerging economies will be called on to play an even larger role in a multi-speed global economy characterized by protracted rehabilitation of over-extended
balance
sheets in industrial countries.
Smaller firms are gradually recuperating; banks have rebuilt their capital cushions and reduced their dubious assets; the housing sector has stabilized; and a growing number of households are reestablishing healthier
balance
sheets, especially as employment gradually picks up.
It is vital that the Copenhagen delegates recognize and promote Africa’s contribution to the world’s delicate climatic
balance.
The Soviet military threat – once so severe that Chairman Mao invited President Richard Nixon to China to change the Cold War
balance
of power – was eliminated.
Rather than exerting discipline, global financial markets have increased the availability of debt, thereby weakening profligate governments' budget constraints and over-extended banks
' balance
sheets.
Only by striking the right
balance
between individual choice and social-policy guidance can modern economies build the social-safety programs they need.
For Italy’s demographic balance, this influx of foreigners – just over five million people, 8.3% of the population – is a positive development.
Moreover, there are signs that wage gains are now broadening out, with the
balance
tilting away from low wage-inflation industries such as manufacturing, health care, and education into higher wage-inflation industries such as finance, the information sector, and professional and business services.
Le Défi ChinoisNEW YORK – So far, discussions about whether or not China should revalue its currency, the renminbi, have focused almost exclusively on the impact of the currency’s exchange rate on China’s trade
balance.
In evaluating China’s currency policy, the effects of any change on the trade
balance
are no more important than the potential consequences for inward FDI, which plays such a crucial role in China’s economic development, and China’s outward FDI, which is receiving increased attention worldwide.
But such policy prescriptions are misguided, because they do not fully consider the role of the financial account in the
balance
of payments, or that of monetary policy in influencing international financial flows.
More fundamentally, the typical case for German fiscal stimulus reflects economists’ failure to appreciate the potentially dominant role of financial flows on the
balance
of payments.
The conventional approach to the
balance
of payments assesses the current account as a function of comparative macroeconomic conditions and exchange rates, and then considers the financial account as a consequent balancing item.
After all, there are times when it may be more appropriate to consider countries’ comparative financial conditions and accompanying financial flows first, and then interpret macroeconomic outcomes and the current-account
balance
in that context.
In fact, the biggest recurrent shock to the German
balance
of payments has come not from the real economy, which would affect the current account, but from financial conditions.
When the ECB begins to alter course and international financial flows respond, there will be adjustments in the European and German
balance
of payments, and today’s large current-account surpluses will contract without German fiscal stimulus.
So early fiscal consolidation can be expansionary on
balance.
An increase in gold imports placed further pressure on the current-account
balance.
But, as a result of no-recourse mortgages in many US states, the entire mortgage debt was then extinguished, even if the value of the home was too low to cover the
balance
still due.
Moreover, even in those states where there is full recourse, so that the homeowner remains liable for the full amount of the mortgage loan (that is, the difference between the
balance
due and the value recovered by selling the home), America’s procedures for personal bankruptcy offer a relatively quick solution.
Until recently, much of the US government’s focus has been on the toxic assets clogging banks’
balance
sheets.
But there is still reason to believe that, at least in the first half of this century, the US will retain its primacy in power resources and continue to play the central role in the global
balance
of power.
For Iran, a staunch supporter of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, a weaker US-Saudi relationship is key to shifting the regional
balance
of power – especially if it is accompanied by the easing of Western economic sanctions.
And it has done so by relying on innovative measures that substitute its elastic
balance
sheet for those of over-extended governments, gun-shy private investors, and fleeing bank depositors.
On balance, of course, the economic downside to enlargement should only be a short-run problem, mainly a matter of perceptions and sectoral vested interests.
As long as governments do not encroach excessively on central-bank decision-making, this development will restore
balance
in policymaking and support policy coordination, particularly in times of stress.
China and most of the other emerging Asian economies have strong government
balance
sheets – the GDP shares of their budget deficits and public debt are relatively small.
In late 2012, at the peak of the post-crisis austerity debate, advanced economies were in the midst of a multi-year tightening equivalent to more than one percentage point of GDP annually, according to cyclically-adjusted primary
balance
data from the International Monetary Fund.
To stabilize market-oriented economies requires a return to the right
balance
between markets and provision of public goods.
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