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In the DRC, 77% of the population is extremely poor and falls a dollar short of the poverty line, on average.
In other words, each dollar spent reducing chronic undernutrition – even in very poor countries – would create returns to society worth $30.
In monetary terms, each dollar spent would accrue benefits to Haitian society worth $24.
Yes, the Chinese renminbi has declined recently against the dollar, but not as much as the Japanese yen, the euro, or the British pound – and those declines have been driven by relative confidence in the US economy.
In any case, the Chinese have a trade-weighted exchange-rate policy, not one based on keeping the renminbi at some targeted level relative to the dollar.
With international use of the euro behind only the US dollar, this achievement can help Europe to continue shaping the global economic order, rather than sliding into irrelevance.
A reluctance of foreign investors to keep accumulating dollar assets will cause a smaller capital inflow from the rest of the world.
The effect of a decline in the dollar over the coming decade could be equally important.
If the real trade-weighted value of the dollar falls by 25% over the coming decade, and the full effect of that dollar decline is reflected in import prices, the increased cost of imports would reduce the growth of US real incomes by about 0.4% a year.
If there is one universally desired “good” in which the US specializes, it is the dollar.
Rethinking the role of the US dollar in the international monetary system is a case in point.
One key feature of the Bretton Woods system was that countries would tie their exchange rates to the US dollar.
The solution, however, lies not in replacing the dollar with the renminbi, but in strengthening the role of the world’s only truly global currency: the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights.
Moreover, if the Chinese government and Chinese firms want to continue investing in overseas oil resources and in foreign businesses, China will have to sell dollar bonds or other sovereign debt from its portfolio.
As a result, an even weaker dollar is a strong possibility, which will further undermine the European and Japanese economies.
And this is not a zero sum situation, with America’s gains equal to Europe’s losses: the uncertainty is bad for investment on both sides of the Atlantic, and if lack of confidence in the dollar leads to a shift out of American bonds and stocks, the American economy could be weakened further.
If the euro falls by 20-25%, bringing it close to parity with the dollar and weakening it to a similar extent against other currencies, the current-account deficits in Italy, Spain, and France would shrink and their economies would strengthen.
Euro for euro, dollar for dollar, yen for yen: energy and carbon taxes have a lower negative impact on a nation’s economy, consumption, and jobs than income tax and VAT.
It amounts to claiming that the factors of production will always be fully employed, and that, in Cochrane’s words, “if the government borrows a dollar from you, that is a dollar that you do not spend, or that you do not lend to a company to spend on new investment.”
Every dollar spent would generate returns to Haiti worth $17.
This would cost just $36 million over five years, yielding benefits worth $13 for every dollar spent.
At a cost of $23.5 million per year, this intervention would cut maternal deaths by 65% and save more than 5,000 children, with every dollar spend producing $18 in social benefits.
Each dollar spent would generate $22 of social benefits.
And the US dollar reserve-currency system – the backbone of the current global financial system – is fraying.
If internal devaluation were a good substitute, the gold standard would not have been a problem in the Great Depression, and Argentina could have managed to keep the peso’s peg to the dollar when its debt crisis erupted a decade ago.
Argentina did so in 2001, when it “pesofied” its dollar debts.
The United States did something similar in 1933, when it depreciated the dollar by 69% and abandoned the gold standard.
Cuba has one of the world’s longest-lasting dual-exchange-rate systems: the dollar’s market value is 25 times the official rate of nominal parity (one peso equals one dollar).
This means that those hotel or restaurant workers who can retain dollar earnings have incomes that are 25 times higher than those who cannot.
The devaluation advanced China’s strategic goal of turning the renminbi into an international reserve currency – and, in the long term, into a credible global challenger to the US dollar.
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