Imbalances
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The build-up of reserves contributes to global
imbalances
and insufficient global aggregate demand, as countries put aside hundreds of billions of dollars as a precaution against global volatility.
The question is whether the government’s efforts to implement structural reforms and transform the economy’s growth model are working – that is, whether internal
imbalances
continue to threaten long-term economic performance.
The ECB’s explanation of the increase in TARGET2
imbalances
– that it is mainly an indirect consequence of the ECB’s own vast bond-purchase program – thus seems much more reasonable than attributing it to capital flight.
And, in fact, these
imbalances
began growing again with the onset of the bond buying, long before the recent bout of political instability.
Likewise, while the accumulated TARGET2
imbalances
would indeed create a problem in case of a euro breakup, they do not constitute an independent indicator of capital flight.
But, over the years, solutions have emerged to ease these internal
imbalances
and clashes.
Beneath the surface, numerous problems were festering: growing inequality; an unmet need for structural reform (moving from a manufacturing-based economy to services and adapting to changing global comparative advantages); persistent global imbalances; and a financial system more attuned to speculating than to making investments that would create jobs, increase productivity, and redeploy surpluses to maximize social returns.
Germany Is Not ChinaROTTERDAM – There is little dispute that global
imbalances
in trade and capital flows are at least partly to blame for the financial crisis and ensuing recession that have rocked the world economy since 2008.
But not all
imbalances
are created equal, so it is important to weigh the consequences of individual countries’ external accounts for global economic stability and prosperity.
Beneath the surface, huge
imbalances
were building up, resulting in debt-fueled real-estate booms in the euro periphery.
In the face of this new/old reality, Europe must not merely make itself heard on the great global issues of trade and fiscal imbalances, important as they are.
After it was revealed that successive governments had misled their way to mammoth fiscal deficits and macroeconomic imbalances, Greece lost access to international bond markets.
Demand adjustments in large current-account
imbalances?
The global
imbalances
that many people view as being at the root of the problem reflected savings rates of near zero in the US, as well as in those economies that seemed best to emulate the American model – the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Spain.
Article IV reviews of China have similarly said little about the implications of the country’s policies for global
imbalances.
It would recommend policies for eliminating
imbalances
and describe what kind of exchange-rate and reserve changes must accompany any adjustments.
Exchange Rate DisorderNEW YORK – Two troubling features of the ongoing economic recovery are the depressed nature of world trade and the early revival of international global payment
imbalances.
This helped many of them weather the recent storm, but it also contributed to global payments
imbalances.
After all, even if the system did not directly cause the recent
imbalances
and instability in the global economy, it proved ineffective in addressing them.
Moreover, reducing the need for countries to set aside funds for reserves would also facilitate some reduction of global
imbalances.
Germany and Italy are simply too big, as compared to Portugal or Belgium (itself a rather questionable amalgam of the Flemish and the Walloons), and this creates the types of
imbalances
reminiscent of the heavy foot of Prussia in the old Bismarckian empire.
The IMF—as a universal institution—offers a unique forum for seeking cooperative solutions to key issues; for example, addressing and understanding current and future global economic
imbalances.
Their efforts to “self-insure,” by, say, building up their foreign-exchange reserves, perpetuate global economic
imbalances.
But it will require global monetary reform of a fundamental order to right the
imbalances
between surplus and deficit countries, between happy savers and those who lived beyond their means, and between rich and poor.
For, unless today’s global
imbalances
are redressed, the next crash will be upon us before we have recovered from this one.
In recent years, assets in emerging-market economies – especially currencies – have depreciated by 5-50% relative to the dollar, reflecting both external
imbalances
and the broader macro conditions of individual countries.
The
imbalances
only worsened.
Mounting
imbalances
in the US were the mirror image of those in China – a massive shortfall of domestic saving, unprecedented current-account deficits, excess debt, and an asset-dependent economy that was ultimately built on speculative quicksand.
In personal relationships, denial tends to mask
imbalances
– but only for so long.
Ultimately, the denial cracks and
imbalances
give rise to frictions and blame – holding a codependent partner responsible for problems of one’s own making.
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