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In addition, net foreign capital
inflows
are likely to dwindle for several quarters at least, affecting domestic monetary conditions while aggregate demand is weak.
But whether renminbi appreciation will work depends on reducing China’s net capital
inflows
and current-account surplus.
If appreciation does not reduce the current-account surplus and capital inflows, then the renminbi’s exchange rate is bound to face further upward pressure.
That is why some people are advocating that China undertake a one-shot, big-bang appreciation – large enough to defuse expectations of further strengthening and deter
inflows
of speculative “hot” money.
But China’s $3.2 trillion problem will become a 20-trillion-renminbi problem if China cannot reduce its current-account surplus and fence off capital
inflows.
Yet it is clear that a bold move to a currency board in, say Brazil, would immediately create a wave of confidence throughout Latin America, restoring capital
inflows
and avoiding the deep recession now building up.
Exceptions could be granted for countries with large
inflows
of foreign direct investment in greenfield projects.
Every day brings news of more deaths and massive
inflows
of starving people into refugee camps in Kenya, across the border from Somalia.
When dealing with surges of potentially destabilizing capital inflows, capital controls are a no-no, but something called prudential regulation is quite okay.
Brazil, Indonesia, South Korea, Thailand, and Taiwan have all recently introduced disincentives to capital
inflows.
Indeed, with the exception of Greece, they are all now running current-account surpluses, meaning that far from depending on capital inflows, they are repaying their foreign debt.
Then the capital
inflows
abruptly reversed, which demanded a decline in domestic wages and prices, relative to the eurozone average, in order to shift resources back toward exports.
In Greece’s case, the problem was compounded by the fact that, during the boom years, the large fiscal deficits had been financed entirely by capital
inflows.
Today, eurozone countries are not subject to large capital inflows, so a crisis would not cause them to face external disequilibrium.
The resulting capital
inflows
have strengthened the currency.
Second,
inflows
of new workers bring substantial benefits as well as losses: in France, which suffers a shortage of some 6,000 plumbers, there must be plenty of households that would be pleased to find someone qualified to do repair work.
The new measures also helped to attract large capital
inflows
and foreign direct investment, underpinning a dramatic rise in foreign-currency reserves, from $14.8 billion in 2004 to more than $36 billion by the end of 2010.
Moreover, this almost certainly underestimates the extent of the losses, because it does not exclude
inflows
of $3.5 billion since November of last year from auctions of US-dollar-denominated treasury bills.
But, over the past several years, a number of sub-Saharan countries have attracted unprecedented
inflows
of foreign capital.
Trump may try to spin these failures, especially as the capital
inflows
that are helping to push up the dollar’s value lower the federal government’s financing costs, thereby creating more room for Trump to pursue his fiscal policy goals.
There, capital
inflows
create asset bubbles that tend to overheat the domestic economy and drive up wages and consumer prices inordinately.
Taxes and other restrictions on capital inflows, the IMF’s economists wrote, can be helpful, and they constitute a “legitimate part” of policymakers’ toolkit.
Rediscovering the common sense that had strangely eluded the Fund for two decades, the report noted: “logic suggests that appropriately designed controls on capital
inflows
could usefully complement” other policies.
As late as November of last year, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn had thrown cold water on Brazil’s efforts to stem
inflows
of speculative “hot money,” and said that he would not recommend such controls “as a standard prescription.”
One justification for capital controls is to prevent
inflows
of hot money from boosting the value of the home currency excessively, thereby undermining competitiveness.
Add to that increased lending from China and huge capital
inflows
propelled by low US interest rates, and the emerging economies were thriving.
By limiting foreign
inflows
and keeping domestic interest rates low, China was able to maintain a relatively weaker currency, which served to sustain its export-led growth model.
The most pressing threat to India’s peace lies on its borders, especially the Himalayan border with China, the world’s longest disputed frontier – not least because uncertainty there facilitates
inflows
of terrorist forces bent on undermining India’s territorial integrity and sowing seeds of ethnic and religious conflict.
These countries are being denied a useful tool for attracting FDI, with recent evidence suggesting that signing a BIT by itself does not lead to increased
inflows.
As the two largest sources and destinations for foreign investment, accounting for a combined 56% of global FDI outflows and 42% of inflows, the US and EU have a particular interest in ensuring a well-functioning international investment regime.
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