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America the RecklessMILAN – The world’s developed countries face growth and employment shortfalls, while developing countries are confronting huge challenges in adapting to increasingly volatile capital flows while adjusting their growth patterns to sustain economic development.
The global economy faces tremendous trials in the coming years: growth, employment, and distributional challenges in many advanced and developing countries; far-reaching institutional reform in Europe; the complex middle-income transition in China; and the continuing need to reduce poverty worldwide.
And it promised to support the positive convergence of developing and developed countries, thereby reducing both absolute and relative poverty and weakening economic incentives for illegal cross-border migration.
The most important of these trends is developing countries’ growing role in financing green investments.
To be sure, developing countries would prefer that developed-country taxpayers foot the climate bill, given their countries’ disproportionate contributions to global warming.
Narrow investment criteria, intended to protect pensioners, are further limiting green investment, particularly in developing countries.
Last year, developing countries accounted for 48.8% of global investment in wind, solar, biofuels, biomass and waste, geothermal, marine, and small hydropower – an increase of nearly 30% since 2004.
Capital investment is not the only way that developing countries are financing the shift toward a less carbon-intensive future.
Green finance in the developing world is different from that offered by developed countries.
For example, private investors based in developing countries often assess risk differently, having a more refined appreciation of political risks.
Furthermore, financial regulators in developing countries are more willing to help channel private finance toward green investment.
Developing countries are probably already the main source of green finance worldwide – and their dominance will only increase.
In order to make genuine progress in Warsaw, climate negotiators must account for the various ways in which developing countries are contributing to the transition toward a low-carbon future.
And developed-country finance – still an important driver of the green transformation – should be used to support the developing countries that are leading the charge toward a cleaner, more sustainable future.
In particular, the IMF now recognizes that capital-account liberalization requires countries to reach a certain threshold with respect to financial and governance institutions, and that many emerging-market and developing countries have not.
Unlike in the past, however, emerging and developing countries avoided the worst, precisely because they had learned to accumulate foreign reserves and regulate cross-border capital flows, and to ease such measures to prevent or mitigate sudden stops.
After all, they contend, developing countries that have experienced a large-scale credit boom have all ended up facing a credit crisis and a hard economic landing.
Indeed, in many developing countries, the only thriving market for the past two years or so has been the black market for foreign exchange.
In the current setting, it is more plausible to expect a variant of the 1980s, with more emerging and developing countries seeking IMF programs.
And, indeed, the Catalyst Trust is already exploring how best to measure outcomes in developing countries’ school-assessment systems, and determining which metrics are most relevant to unique educational environments.
But it left out a majority of the sources of emissions, and unless something is done to include the US and the developing countries in a meaningful way, it will be little more than a symbolic gesture.
This “coalition of the willing” could agree to certain basic standards: to forego building coal-fired plants, increase automobiles’ fuel efficiency, and provide targeted assistance to developing countries to enhance their energy efficiency and reduce emissions.
Several detailed recent calculations provide credible estimates of how much external financing developing countries will need to achieve SDG 4.A UNESCO study puts the total at $39.5 billion per year.
A report by the International Commission on Financing Education Opportunity, led by former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, similarly put developing countries’ external financing needs at tens of billions of dollars per year.
Behind SpaceX is a crowd of other private companies developing spacecraft, including Masten Space Systems, XCOR Aerospace, Armadillo Aerospace, and Blue Origin.
Fortunately, most developed countries – and an increasing number of developing countries – recognize the importance of collecting data on wellbeing.
For China’s effort to make Internet giants like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft kowtow to its domestic political controls, and its push in Africa and Latin America to create blocs of nations that pursue economic development while ignoring human rights and environmental conservation, is a poor model for the developing world.
As my talk concluded, I got into an animated debate with my audience on developing global standards for labor markets.
The impact of business process outsourcing (BPO) on many developing nations’ labor markets is a case in point.
Indeed, the two combine to produce a neatly perverse analysis: globalization is bad because it gives our race’s jobs to other races in developing nations.
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