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For a West eager to stem the flows of refugees and migrants from Africa and the Middle East, supporting development is a much more effective approach than building walls and razor wire fences.
But simply absorbing the refugee flows is not really an option either, at least not a complete one.
After all, speculative flows account for more than 95% of the $2 trillion traded daily in currency markets.
Preservation of frontier habitats also helps regulate water flows, reduces the risk of flooding, and maintains biodiversity.
To be sure, China remains far from embracing a free-floating currency, let alone a fully convertible one, which would require further liberalization of controls on cross-border financial flows.
As major importers of regional labor, their success results in higher remittances to non-oil economies; and, as major regional investors, their achievements are fueling larger capital flows, as well as substantial bilateral aid.
Similarly, under current law, soldiers will answer not to Baghdad but to regional powerbrokers, while the Iraqi constitution guarantees local governments the right to pocket the revenue that flows from new oil fields within their jurisdiction.
At the same time, some traditional importers are tapping new sources of energy and becoming producers, changing the direction of energy flows.
Yet prudence flows through China’s Confucian veins.
The same goes for investment flows – the second engine of globalization – which are often conveniently forgotten in discussions of the US-China economic relationship.
All too often, the world’s poor are forced to drink contaminated water, drill holes in pipelines, or buy bottled water that is far more expensive than what flows from the taps of their richer neighbors.
As Anne-Marie Slaughter, Director of Policy Planning in the US State Department, argues, “the power that flows from this type of connectivity is not the power to impose outcomes.
City planners must look beyond municipal limits and analyze flows of resources – energy, food, water, and people – into and out of their cities.
An unintended, but not unexpected, consequence of monetary easing has been sharp increases in cross-border capital flows.
At the time, many emerging markets had a hard time managing the sudden surge of capital flows.
Unrestricted energy flows within the EU would mitigate the risks of supply disruptions or shocks.
Money naturally flows to where utility and value are being provided – and those flows are easy to track in national accounts.
In a currency union, however, central-bank credit may play this role if private capital flows are insufficient.
And it is reengineering transboundary river flows.
The case for liberalization has always focused on reducing the transaction costs of global trade, investment, and information flows.
Since the global economic crisis, the expansionary monetary policies that advanced-economy central banks have pursued have caused large-scale, volatile capital flows across emerging-economy borders, generating significant instability for these countries and fueling accusations of “currency wars.”
Second, saving and investment flows should be viewed as global, not national.
Second, saving and investment flows are global.
The result is inadequate global demand (global investments falling short of global saving at full employment) and highly volatile short-term capital flows to finance consumption and real estate.
Such short-term flows are subject to abrupt reversals of size and direction.
Transnational terrorism can only be confronted by close civilian cooperation such as intelligence sharing, police work across borders, and tracing financial flows.
In any case, when advanced countries accept only a small number of skilled migrants, they do nothing to diminish the pressure that drives migration flows, which overwhelmingly comprise people who lack the new country’s required skills.
For Europe, the focus should be on Africa, the main source of migration flows.
And now that the government has imposed new restrictions on capital flows, the country’s attractiveness to foreign investors will fall further.Capital controls are of course in keeping with the “resistance economy” favored by conservatives, one of whom recently stoked fears of capital flight by declaring that $30 billion had left the country in only a few months.
And now that the government has imposed new restrictions on capital flows, the country’s attractiveness to foreign investors will fall further.
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