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Latin America and Asia operate in the same global economy, with access to similar technology and
markets.
A 1994 free-trade treaty with the EU enabled Estonian products to find new markets, and Estonia eventually became one of the most successful postcommunist transition countries, joining the EU and NATO in 2004.
Just as a free-trade deal with Europe allowed Estonia to find new markets, it can be the means through which Georgians are able to help themselves.
Global
Markets'
Time FactorBARCELONA – In recent months, the dichotomy between booming financial markets, on the one hand, and sluggish economies and dysfunctional politics, on the other, has loomed large.
Markets
have been understandably buoyant in the first quarter of 2013.
The healing process is also evident in Europe, though, unfortunately, it is effectively limited only to sovereign-bond
markets.
Moreover, as Ireland’s highly successful €5 billion ten-year bond issue in mid-March demonstrated, some countries are in the process of restoring normal access to capital
markets.
The impact on
markets
of these trends has been turbocharged by central banks, which are risk markets’ best friends.
This is most evident in the US, where
markets
love the Federal Reserve’s trifecta of near-zero policy interest rates (negative in real terms), aggressive forward policy guidance, and asset purchases – all of which push investors to take more risk.
Markets
also welcome the fact that the Fed’s hyperactive experimentation is forcing other central banks around the world to pursue more expansionary policies.
The mix of endogenous healing and strong central-bank tailwinds, including from a “whatever it takes” European Central Bank, has also helped
markets
shrug off troubling political uncertainties.
And with the hype this month over eight successive records for the Dow Jones index (and many other records around the world), excitement induces more investors to enter riskier asset
markets.
Have no doubt: today’s
markets
rely heavily on the old adage that “time heals all wounds.”
Though these low-income countries – including Bangladesh and Vietnam in Asia, Honduras and Bolivia in Latin America, and Kenya and Ghana in Africa – have small, undeveloped financial markets, they are growing rapidly and are expected to become the emerging economies of the future.
Rather than exerting discipline, global financial
markets
have increased the availability of debt, thereby weakening profligate governments' budget constraints and over-extended banks' balance sheets.
As Brazil, Colombia, South Korea, and others have learned, limited controls that target specific
markets
such as bonds or short-term bank lending do not have a significant impact on key outcomes – the exchange rate, monetary independence, or domestic financial stability.
Countries such as Brazil and Argentina paid off their loans to the IMF ahead of time, while others are buying up their own debt in secondary
markets.
Increased liquidity in international capital
markets
also reduced the need to obtain multilateral financing, and with it the need to accept conditions like privatization of natural resources and deregulation of public utilities.
First, with the current raw materials bonanza driving up prices of exported goods, the region is increasingly vulnerable to the so-called “Dutch disease,” whereby higher wages and prices spread throughout the economy, weakening competitiveness, particularly in industrial
markets.
With Asian manufacturing exporters penetrating
markets
worldwide, such a development would be highly damaging to Latin America’s growth prospects.
The EU Commissioner for Competition Policy, Mario Monti, cannot loose this battle: he needs the support of those who believe in
markets
and equal treatment for all.
Making modern labor
markets
flexible for employers and employees alike would require a UBI’s essential features, like portability and free choice.
It is possible, indeed essential, to be pro-equality and pro-growth, to advocate strengthening social inclusion while promoting the efficiency of
markets.
Even the fabled floating
markets
in Bangkok’s canals are back, on Prayut’s orders.
Free securities
markets
will enable firms to raise private capital, and will destroy the lever that bureaucrats have over firms because they allocate credits.
Similarly, in trade reform, capital
markets
reform, land reform, market participants are pushing for less regulation.
It will be the markets, then, and not the politicians, that will ultimately defeat corruption in Russia and the rest of Eastern Europe.
The aim was to minimize the amount of new funding required from the European Stability Mechanism and the IMF to refinance Greek debt, and to ensure that Greece would become eligible within 2015 for the European Central Bank’s asset-purchase program (quantitative easing), effectively restoring Greece’s access to capital
markets.
Conservatives argued for a private sector-driven economy, unfettered markets, low taxes, reduced government spending, and limited public goods.
Liberals and social democrats supported a private-ownership economy, markets, European integration, and increased trade, tempered by substantially redistributive taxes and transfers, a strong social safety net, and some public ownership in areas such as infrastructure and finance.
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