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UN member states have acknowledged migration’s many benefits, including its role in stabilizing global labor markets, spreading knowledge and ideas, creating diasporas that spur increased trade and investment, and sustaining economies worldwide through remittances, which pay for family members’ health care, education, and housing back home.
Besides damaging public accounts and imposing a severe fiscal sacrifice on the country, the abnormally high level of the Selic rate (the Brazilian overnight interbank rate) inhibited the “animal spirits” of entrepreneurship, distorted resource allocation, and impeded the development of the real-estate and capital markets, while causing currency appreciation.
This resulted in a significant reduction in the interest-rate differential with other countries, which, together with a more active intervention policy in the spot and future markets, brought the exchange rate to a much more competitive level, despite the global currency war.
In traditional Western European markets, health officials should brace for a rise in the number of deaths from drug overdoses, as this year’s bumper opium crop will lead to higher-purity doses of heroin.
It is a bitter irony that the countries whose soldiers’ lives are on the line in Afghanistan are also the biggest markets for Afghan heroin.
Under Yeltsin, despite the chaos of flawed markets and an even more flawed democracy, there was a sense that things were moving forward.
It does so by using implicit EU budget guarantees to raise capital on financial markets.
Financial markets might very well interpret this as a guarantee of solvency.
Apparel production is a prime example of China’s declining competiveness in markets dependent on low-cost labor.
Producers in Jiangsu, for example, were forced to adapt constantly to fickle product-safety and environmental standards in export markets.
As the crisis gathered pace, Ukraine was completely cut off from international financial markets, despite sound public finances and low foreign debt.
Yanukovych, whose campaign relies on financing from the main beneficiaries of the old, corrupt energy system, seems certain to undo these reforms, thus reintroducing grave risks into European energy markets.
That also means ending government co-financing of operating costs and demanding that the oil companies tap capital markets to bridge the shortfall.
In order to minimize the risk of unintended consequences, regulatory changes should be straightforward and enforceable – tough criteria, given the complexity and dynamism of financial markets.
In this regard, it is much like emerging markets’ dollar-denominated debts: it is either repaid or restructured.
Farther afield, the weakness in the euro has translated into dollar strength, which means a sustained beating for emerging markets, particularly those with US dollar debt.
The flight to quality that accompanies outbreaks of financial turbulence is reinforcing a shift away from some of the riskier asset classes of which emerging markets are a part.
International equity markets have not been exempt from contagion.
The alternative – exclusive reliance on a bailout – is tempting, as it may temporarily calm markets.
In the mildest of scenarios, only Italy’s official debt – held by other governments or international organizations – would be restructured, somewhat limiting the disruptions to financial markets.
But mortgage markets remain underdeveloped in most emerging economies.
The next bust can be avoided only if emerging markets manage the dream of homeownership better than the US and Europe.
The result has not been investment in productive assets that boost employment in the US, as the Fed intended, but rather a run-up in global commodity prices and a growing bubble in the housing markets of the major emerging economies.
It worked then, but it cannot work now, in large part because it contributed to the new, looming crisis in financial markets brought on by countries’ soaring public-debt burdens.
Indeed, financial markets are unlikely to differentiate between Greek debt and that of other heavily indebted economies, including Portugal, Ireland, Spain, and even Italy – the most recent eurozone member to come under speculative attack.
Moreover, stock markets’ record highs are no longer relying so much on loose monetary policy for support.
For the most part, CEOs, hemmed in by the short termism of stock markets, are focused on the next 12 months, whereas politicians are focusing on a more medium-term outlook.
TOKYO – Financial markets have greeted the election of Greece’s new far-left government in predictable fashion.
They might be right; then again, back in 2008, US policymakers thought that the collapse of one investment house, Bear Stearns, had prepared markets for the bankruptcy of another, Lehman Brothers.
And much attention has been devoted, often in nearby opinion pieces, to the view that hyperactive equities markets, particularly in the US and the United Kingdom, push large corporations to focus disproportionately on short-term financial results at the expense of long-term investments in their countries’ economies.
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