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This analysis suggests that the “excessive [current-account] imbalances” procedure that is to be introduced under the ongoing reform of eurozone governance goes in the right direction.
Costs to US consumers are rising and making them feel poorer, not because they have become poorer, but because the previous pattern of global
imbalances
exaggerated their wealth.
Chinese surpluses, by contrast, were seen as a cause of global
imbalances.
This will not correct the
imbalances
that exist today.
If successfully implemented, this agenda is likely to reverse global savings and consumption patterns that have underpinned large
imbalances
in recent years.
The dispersion of current-account positions tells us much about the state of global imbalances, which are often a precursor of crises.
History suggests that current-account
imbalances
ultimately matter a great deal.
A Requiem for Global ImbalancesBERKELEY – The start of 2014 marks ten years since we began fretting about global imbalances, and specifically about the chronic trade and current-account
imbalances
of the United States and China.
A decade later, we can happily declare that the era of global
imbalances
is over.
Back in 2004, there were two schools of thought on global
imbalances.
By contrast, adherents of the Dr. Doom school warned that global
imbalances
were an accident waiting to happen.
Global
imbalances
did not continue indefinitely.
There was a crisis, to be sure, but it was not a crisis of global
imbalances.
Both critics and defenders of global
imbalances
almost entirely overlooked these gross flows in both directions across the North Atlantic.
The next time that global
imbalances
develop, analysts will – we must hope – know to look beneath their surface.
A couple of years ago, forecasters were confident that global
imbalances
would reemerge once the crisis passed.
The demand for a different monetary order, as advocated by China, sets the stage for a renewed effort to avoid the international
imbalances
which were at the root of this crisis.
Another important step would be to expand and strengthen water infrastructure to address seasonal
imbalances
in water availability, make distribution more efficient, and harvest rainwater, thereby opening up an additional source of supply.
Countries that run chronic external surpluses, like China, and countries whose currencies are widely used internationally, like the US, do not face the same pressure as other countries to correct their policies when economic
imbalances
arise.
CAMBRIDGE – The decade that preceded the 2008 financial crisis was marked by massive global trade imbalances, as the United States ran large bilateral deficits, especially with China.
Since the crisis reached its nadir, these
imbalances
have been partly reversed, with America’s trade deficit, as a share of GDP, declining from its 2006 peak of 5.5% to 3.4% in 2012, and China’s surplus shrinking from 7.7% to 2.8% over the same period.
If the world continues on its current course, labor-market
imbalances
will worsen significantly in the coming years.
But it would clearly be more comfortable if the competitive
imbalances
that arose during the boom years were corrected more quickly, and most European policymakers would welcome some rebalancing as well.
Far more serious was the lack of transparency in the Central Electoral Commission and the political
imbalances
on some local commissions.
First, there is the long-standing litany of policy responses needed to deal with the global trade
imbalances.
They are also a big factor behind the global trade
imbalances.
The post-war order, which made the US more equal than others, produced dangerous
imbalances.
This would, however, allow the international community to press China to abandon its exchange-rate peg to the dollar and would be the best way to reduce international
imbalances.
To be sure, since 2007, the IMF has prohibited “large-scale intervention in one direction in the exchange market,” in a decision on “bilateral surveillance” that also identifies “large and prolonged” current-account
imbalances
as a reason for review.
But trade negotiations are not the right forum for discussing the causes and consequences of current-account
imbalances
and reaching agreements on macroeconomic-policy coordination; that is what the IMF and the G-20 are for.
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