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But why should Latin American countries care about these capital flows and the revaluation of their currencies?
Instead of natural resources hurting competitiveness, in Latin America (and other developing countries) it is financial flows that are causing the illness.
They surely have a right to defend themselves, whether through foreign-exchange intervention and the consequent accumulation of reserves (a potentially profitable option if capital flows are indeed temporary), imposition of capital controls, or other currency-related macro-prudential policies aimed at countercyclical exchange-rate smoothing.
According to a recent assessment by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, global financial flows for mitigation and adaptation measures amounted to $340-650 billion in 2011-2012.
And these deficits are now being financed in riskier ways: more debt than equity; more short-term debt than long-term debt; more foreign-currency debt than local-currency debt; and more financing from fickle cross-border interbank flows.
Moldova will be an increasingly safe neighbor for the EU and a good partner in managing migration flows.
What counts is relative size, not net trade flows.
In an era of globalized financial markets, when countries can find it hard to cope with rapid cross-border capital flows, there is no time for complacency.
Mitigation attempts to reduce these flows and thus reduce the rate of increase of the stock of carbon in the atmosphere, with the ultimate goal of stabilizing or reducing it to safe levels.
Immense trade flows, the rise of billions of new consumers in the emerging world, and technology breakthroughs are rapidly transforming the global economy.
Of course, even if the composition of international capital flows can be changed, there are still many good reasons to try to reduce global imbalances.
So the market does not seem to care that countries have different potentials to generate exports to fund the financial flows needed for debt repayments, or different current and projected debt-to-GDP ratios.
Similarly, as refugee flows have altered direction over the last 15 or 20 years, treatment of refugees – enshrined since 1951 in the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees – needs to be re-examined.
During President George W. Bush’s administration, the US worked with the Saudis to track financial flows to radical groups and thus weaken such groups’ operations throughout the region, including in western Iraq.
Unfortunately, the effort to interdict financial flows from Saudi Arabia weakened substantially after 2011, when parts of North Africa and the Middle East became engulfed in the so-called Arab Spring (a moniker that surely will be replaced with something both less cheerful and more accurate).
Let me spell out what this means for three policy objectives: building a stronger and safer financial sector, achieving more balanced and more stable growth, and managing large and volatile capital flows.
And we should explore whether a system of global rules aimed at reducing the volatility of capital flows would be useful.
A little volatility is a good thing, both to discourage speculative capital flows and to put the fear of God into investors looking for the next Greenspan-Bernanke put.
Imagining a New Bretton WoodsAUSTIN, TEXAS – The financial meltdown of 2008 prompted calls for a global financial system that curtails trade imbalances, moderates speculative capital flows, and prevents systemic contagion.
Once established, the ICU would tax persistent surpluses and deficits symmetrically, to annul the negative feedback mechanism between unbalanced capital flows, volatility, inadequate global aggregate demand, and unnecessary unemployment distributed unevenly around the world.
Second, private financial institutions would pay a fee into the same NICU fund in proportion to any surge of capital flows out of a country, reminiscent of the price hike that companies like Uber impose during peak traffic.
Foreign-exchange markets will factor this in, adjusting exchange rates faster in response to current-account imbalances and canceling out much of the capital flows which today support chronically unbalanced trade.
But even if tariffs and quotas are progressively reduced, trade flows may remain low if other trade costs remain high.
The world we are entering is one in which the most powerful global flows will be ideas and digital capital, not goods, services, and traditional capital.
With capital-account convertibility, the rupee's exchange rate will be determined more by capital flows than by inflation differentials, as India's inflation rate remains broadly in line with the OECD average of around 3%.
Around the world, the stock of financial assets has become so large, relative to national income flows, that financial-market movements can overwhelm most countries.
But that is slow in coming; in the meantime, the Japanese financial market furiously adjusts to the rising Yen by doing exactly the wrong thing: they sell off dollar assets, dump dollar earnings to move their balance sheets and income flows into Yen.
Saving imbalances can also lead to destabilizing international capital flows, asset bubbles, and financial crises.
East European countries attracted large international capital flows, owing to loose global monetary policy and accommodating business conditions.
For example, if you are a city planner in charge of traffic management, there are two ways you can address traffic flows in your city.
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