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Unfortunately, ECB officials’ recent statements may have reduced the pressure on governments to do those things, and, by reversing the decline of the euro’s value, may have blocked the market response that is needed to shrink current-account imbalances and boost GDP in the eurozone.
But entitlements for the elderly, Social Security and Medicare, threaten severe fiscal imbalances later in the next century.
But if Europe does not adopt some combination of the first three options as policy goals over the next five years, it will face a stark choice: either lost decades for southern Europe (and perhaps northern Europe as well), or continued north-south payment imbalances that will have to be financed through fiscal transfers – that is, by taxing the north.
But can this apparently benign pattern of global growth be sustained, particularly since growth has been accompanied by ever-widening global financial imbalances?
The UN report observes that national economic policies and existing multilateral settings are not designed to mitigate effectively the risk of a global slowdown or to address global imbalances.
However, it has also limited the expansion of domestic demand and import growth, exacerbating rather than redressing the global imbalances.
Of course, no single government can bear all the costs of the policies needed to correct today’s global imbalances.
The reality is that, under a flexible exchange-rate regime, competitive devaluations do not produce undesirable imbalances.
If it does, will global imbalances disappear sooner?
America should not pin too much hope on a weakening dollar to correct its trade imbalances.
For the US, the fundamental cause of imbalances is not a strong dollar, but America’s over-consumption and over-borrowing.
A key pillar of their prevention strategy is to scale back “global imbalances,” a euphemism for the huge US trade deficit and the corresponding trade surpluses elsewhere, not least China.
The fact that world leaders recognize that global imbalances are a huge problem is welcome news.
The Fed might also consider policy in 1924-1927, when low interest rates fueled stock-market and real-estate bubbles, or 2003-2005, when interest rates were held down in the face of serious financial imbalances.
The second oil shock and high international interest rates, coupled with a lack of foreign investment, led to significant internal and external imbalances and high levels of foreign debt.
Emerging markets are leading the recovery, but a number of them must contend with the risks of overheating and growing financial imbalances.
Each entered the financial crisis with huge current-account imbalances.
Given that their intertwined imbalances were key drivers of the financial crisis, this is a welcome development.
Others, like me, understood that expansionary monetary policies would not be enough; but, because we had looked at global imbalances the wrong way, we missed the principal source of risk – US financial mis-regulation.
Pressure would be simultaneously placed on creditor and debtor countries to balance their accounts, by charging rising interest rates on persistent imbalances.
The world's reliance on the US as the one source of growth in global demand buttresses America's currency power play, but at the cost of aggravating vast global imbalances.
The structure of global imbalances, with the US the big borrower and emerging markets the creditors, presents a rare opportunity to finance a change in governance at the IMF.
With about 80% of Chinese household savings deposited in banks, this implicit tax on savings has had a major economic impact, reinforcing Chinese households’ tendency to save and thus undermining consumption growth and exacerbating global imbalances.
Zuma’s departure did nothing to address the imbalances that are undermining the economy.
A clear set of rules on feed procurement would eliminate international imbalances in nutrients, and diminish the power of multinational agricultural biotechnology corporations like Monsanto.
The European Commission added its voice last month, when it published its scorecard on macroeconomic imbalances and called for an in-depth analysis of the German surplus.
On the finance side, international capital flows and global imbalances were the primary focus.
In 1987, the economist C. Fred Bergsten was among the first to point out that global imbalances had begun to climb toward uncharted territory.
Japan was singled out as a particular culprit of the soaring global imbalances, because its current-account surplus topped 4% of its GDP in 1986, while the Bank of Japan amassed record levels of US Treasury securities.
The same charge has dogged China, which, with its spectacular export-led growth, record official purchases of US assets, and fixed (or semi-fixed) exchange rate, today continues to dominate discussion of global imbalances.
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