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And in 2002, they agreed on the Monterrey Consensus, pledging concrete efforts to triple aid flows to the poorest in order to reach the international goal for foreign assistance of 0.7% of rich-world GNP.
What had seemed a bilateral dispute between the United States and China over the renminbi’s exchange rate has mutated into a general controversy over capital flows and currencies.
The only difference is that, if exchange rates remain fixed, advanced countries will have to go through a protracted period of low inflation (or even deflation), which will make their debt burden even harder to bear, and emerging countries will have to enter an inflationary period as capital flows in, driving up reserves, increasing the money supply, and ultimately boosting the price level.
The eurozone thus risks becoming stuck in an unstable status quo, with banks’ cross-border claims large enough to transmit national shocks to the entire system, but financial integration not deep enough to ensure that capital flows freely throughout the currency area.
Syria’s borders with Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon, and Israel also present unique challenges to regional security, given the potential not only for international conflict, but also for destabilizing cross-border flows of refugees.
Open-ended commitments, like aid flows to poor developing countries, have had only limited success, at best.
Thus, capital flows from the core to the periphery would continue to exceed the optimal amount, undermining growth for Europe as a whole.
Organizational skill is the ability to manage the structures, information flows, and reward systems of an institution or group.
If top leaders do not monitor their systems to ensure that they are producing full and accurate information flows, the systems are likely to become distorted by the most powerful subordinates.
Leaders of social movements also need to manage the inward and outward flows of information.
It was costly in many ways, but it assured him of multiple, competing flows of information.
In the past, the interruption of financial flows – or “sudden stops” – has been an essential feature of crises in Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world.
After the collapse of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers in 2008, capital flows were interrupted for only about a year.
Indeed, despite the magnitude of the initial shock, capital flows and risk margins had essentially normalized by 2009, when bond financing in Latin America began to surge, soon reaching triple the pre-2008 average.
The shocks that have occurred since then have had an even smaller impact on financial flows.
More remarkably, the Fed’s two recent interest-rate hikes have had no perceptible impact on risk margins and financial flows, though higher rates have been transmitted to Latin America.
But now Strauss-Kahn is throwing cold water on proposals to tax international flows of “hot money.”
Prudential controls on capital flows make a lot of sense.
Short-term flows not only wreak havoc with domestic macroeconomic management, but they also aggravate adverse exchange-rate movements.
Strauss-Kahn’s response that taxes on capital flows are costly and ineffective is therefore unfortunate.
If capital controls can be easily evaded – say, by manipulating the timing of transactions or through mis-invoicing of trade flows – then there will be little effect on the actual volume of capital inflows.
The IMF’s reaction to Brazil’s financial taxes reflects how ingrained finance fetishism has become, and how difficult it is to reintroduce some balance in the debate on capital flows – even in the aftermath of the greatest financial crisis the world has experienced since the Great Depression.
Referring to capital controls, John Maynard Keynes famously said: “what used to be heresy [restrictions on capital flows] is now endorsed as orthodoxy.”
Since 2015, remittances, which have grown strongly since 2000, have accounted for the bulk of total external financial flows to Africa, as ODA declined from 37% in 2001-2003 to 28% in 2012-2016.
Remittances accounted for 51% of private capital flows to Africa in 2016, up from 42% in 2010.
This landmark agreement represents a blueprint for managing global migration flows.
A confrontational stance on trade, together with greater reliance on government debt, may well extract a higher toll to balance flows of goods and services and of capital.
We may hope that economic development in Eastern Europe – or Mexico – will equalize conditions sufficiently to end net flows from one region to another; but ending the flow of refugees from the Middle East and Africa is altogether more daunting.
Simply put, exchange-rate movements do not properly correct net trade (saving) imbalances between open economies; but they can increase hot money flows.
Private-sector flows have been much larger throughout Central and Eastern Europe as well, owing to attractive conditions for foreign direct investment – much of it comprising long-term projects with associated benefits like knowledge transfer and the introduction of international best practices.
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