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Emerging-Market ResilienceNEW YORK – With most of the world focused on economic
instability
and anemic growth in the advanced countries, developing countries, with the possible exception of China, have received relatively little attention.
With that, the populist coalition – comprising the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) and the far-right League party – has seemingly confirmed fears of populist-fueled
instability
in Europe.
Just as the first two gambits failed to gain meaningful economic traction in chronically weak recoveries, the shift to negative rates will only compound the risks of financial
instability
and set the stage for the next crisis.
The first is that central banks have ignored the risks of financial
instability.
Sinking oil prices are clearly correlated with financial instability, but the lines of causation do not point in the direction most pundits seem to believe.
Rapidly changing commodity prices can upend the geopolitical landscape as well, sparking political
instability
– or worse.
Instead, they boosted the budget deficit and contributed significantly to increasing the US national debt (by around $3 trillion through 2010), which weakened the government’s ability to respond to crises, either in terms of national security or financial
instability.
And if capital-account liberalization results in large foreign claims against China’s financial system, Chinese asset-price and exchange-rate
instability
will have a far greater global impact than it does today.
The Middle East is already suffering unprecedented instability, the result of local rivalries and realities, and of 15 years during which the US arguably first did too much and then too little to shape the region’s future.
The unrest and
instability
of the Arab Spring – a term that many Arab political activists reject in favor of revolution or uprising – is far from over.
Against this background, continuing to neglect relations with Libya would be a major strategic mistake for the US (and the West more generally), as would allowing turmoil in Syria or
instability
in Egypt to shape Americans’ attitudes – and thus US policy – toward Libya.
That requires not only spreading damaging lies at home, but also sowing violence and
instability
among its neighbors.
The RMB will continue to appreciate in the near future, owing to strong economic fundamentals, but the inherent
instability
of short-term capital flows will make its exchange rate more volatile.
On the face of it, countries moving toward democracy seem as likely to experience poor economic performance as countries moving toward renewed dictatorship, because political
instability
and uncertainty of any kind naturally hurt investment and growth.
And macroeconomic
instability
has impeded growth in both countries.
This makes it all the more difficult – and even more imperative – to devise and implement effective strategies to combat the factors driving it: growing inequalities and unchecked discrimination, environmental degradation, and prolonged conflict and
instability.
Second, America's huge trade deficit may be a major source of global
instability.
Much evidence, meanwhile, suggests that such flows present risk without reward: they lead to increased instability, not increased growth.
But its response – essentially just more quantitative easing – could backfire, exacerbating imbalances and generating serious financial
instability.
When interest rates normalize, this could generate serious financial
instability.
But, by using its energy resources and recovered confidence to fuel
instability
and discord, it is seeking to expand its sphere of interest – an outcome that can be averted only by a unanimous and determined EU response.
Southeast Asia’s boom years are gone, but this is not to say that they have vanished forever, for the causes of this
instability
are not hidden.
Today, liberalization of the political system, without strengthening its ability to absorb the shocks of political struggle, seems to incite instability, too.
France is a marvelously paradoxical country, so the search for novelty, if not modernity, could lead to the reinvention of the Fourth Republic, a parliamentary regime characterized by its weaknesses and
instability.
After months of relative calm in the eurozone, financial markets are again gripped by uncertainty, owing to political
instability
in Italy and the banking crisis in Cyprus.
And pressure on public budgets, owing to global financial instability, means that this trend is likely to continue.
It is time for both countries’ leaders to speak privately and directly with each other, with an understanding of the
instability
that could result from any failure to complete the diplomatic opening that the two sides initiated.
Extreme poverty bred illiteracy and miserable governance, which in turn intensified hunger, disease, and
instability.
Chinese officials faced the risk of a dangerous interplay of political and economic
instability.
Hit by a second external demand shock in three years – first, America’s subprime crisis, and now Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis – any outbreak of internal political
instability
would pose a far greater threat than might otherwise be the case.
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