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Developed countries have committed to mobilize $100 billion in annual financial flows to developing countries by 2020, but much more is needed.
Globalization – the proliferation of flows of labor, goods, services, money, information, and technology worldwide – seemed to be benefiting everyone except them.
For we are both strong believers in the need for substantial foreign aid flows to the world's poorest countries.
Too many policymakers still believe that externally imposed opening to international capital flows was the main culprit behind the financial crises of the 1990’s – a view that unfortunately is lent some intellectual respectability by a small number of left-leaning academics.
When growth slowed sharply and credit flows collapsed in the wake of the Great Recession, budget revenues plummeted, governments were forced to socialize private-sector liabilities, and fiscal deficits and debt soared.
Water flows on the surface and underground.
As income is redistributed from labor to capital, it flows from those who have a higher marginal propensity to spend (low- and middle-income households) to those who have a higher marginal propensity to save (high-income households and corporations).
More money, it turns out, flows out of Africa than into it.
One may take issue and quibble with the numbers but there is a general consensus that illicit capital flight from Africa far exceeds aid flows and investment in volume.
Ensuring that illicit financial flows do not continue to deplete government coffers would be the perfect place to start.
The Fed still hopes that liquidity and confidence can be restored quickly, and that the summer of 2007 will serve future economists as an example of how de-linked financial markets can be from the flows of spending and production in the real economy.
But, in a world of large short-term capital flows, central-banks’ policy interest rates – or even just announcements about likely future rates – also have a major impact.
It allows for fine-tuning and self-selection of migration flows, yielding far better results than even the most well-meaning bureaucrats could ever achieve.
Developing countries, particularly those in Asia, will suffer the worst consequences of global warming: storm damage, rising sea levels, and massive refugee flows.
Countries are getting tougher because migration flows can be diverted across jurisdictions.
Twelve of the 15 countries reneged on promises not to restrict worker flows from the new members as they realized that Austria and Germany were closing their borders to immigration from their eastern neighbors.
But tight national restrictions do not seem to prevent migration; they only alter the geographical orientation of flows and fuel increases in illegal immigration, thereby inflating the size of the informal economy.
Illegal flows as a proportion of the population are about 25% larger in Europe than in the US; at the same time, legal flows are roughly 25% larger in the US than in Europe.
It does not stress the obvious advantages of having the EU as a unique player in enforcing border controls, signing cooperation agreements with migrants’ countries of origin, and encouraging the type of flows that are best suited for Europe.
In a world where private capital flows dwarf the resources at its disposal, the IMF had come to seem an anachronism.
Under normal circumstances, unimpeded cross-border capital flows come with all of the advertised benefits in terms of better resource allocation and higher productivity.
Power in a network flows from connectedness, or what network theorists call “centrality.”
Climate-driven migration flows will exacerbate the challenges Asian cities face.
With the outbreak of the global crisis, major advanced economies employed unconventional monetary policies, leading to massive capital flows to emerging-market economies, which lowered borrowing costs and increased access to credit.
This has increased the vulnerability of many emerging markets to a sharp reversal in capital flows.
Some countries – most notably Brazil – have also used taxes on international capital flows and other kinds of controls in an effort to guide the currency’s value.
By promoting better fishing practices, we can increase regional revenue flows to rebuild and restore fisheries, boost food and job security, and strengthen resilience to climate change.
Newer trade agreements incorporate rules on “intellectual property,” capital flows, and investment protections that are mainly designed to generate and preserve profits for financial institutions and multinational enterprises at the expense of other legitimate policy goals.
They make it harder for developing countries to access technology, manage volatile capital flows, and diversify their economies through industrial policies.
And while some predict a recovery in 2016, I fail to see how any analysis of demand flows can justify that forecast.
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