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Since many of these services require face-to-face interaction with customers, US multinationals had to expand their foreign employment to satisfy demand in these markets.
As a rule, it took about three days before markets caught on and the crisis entered another round.
Of course, it could be that the United Kingdom’s veto of the summit’s proposed changes to the EU’s Lisbon Treaty drowned out all else, while further increasing distrust on the part of the public and financial markets of a divided Europe.
Unfortunately not: progress resulted almost exclusively from the pressure of the much-maligned financial markets.
Just as former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was brought down not by political opponents, but by jittery investors, it was the markets, not European leaders, that opened the door to European fiscal and political union.
On the contrary, it reflects European politicians’ lack of sufficient strategic vision and courage in dealing with the eurozone crisis – and also in regulating the markets.
Global-governance institutions are facing many challenges: slowing economic growth, volatile financial markets, falling commodity prices, emerging-economy risks (especially in China), refugee and migrant waves, geopolitical tensions, rising inequality and social fragmentation, and the threat of violent extremism.
What’s more, developing Africa’s low-carbon energy sources now would allow it to avoid the carbon-intensive growth model adopted by rich countries and other emerging markets, especially in Asia.
Latin America’s stock markets are up sharply since the crisis, as are property prices in those few countries that keep track of house values.
The financial markets’ recent darling is Brazil, which grew at a breakneck 7.5% pace in 2010, fueled by almost $100 billion in capital inflows.
Once upon a time in Latin America, fiscal policies were extremely pro-cyclical: whenever commodity prices fell, governments lost access to capital markets, so they had to eliminate their deficits just when conditions called for fiscal expansion.
But financial markets’ reaction to the US Federal Reserve’s warning in May that it may wind down its unconventional monetary policies led many analysts to question how rapid emerging-market growth would be.
Many emerging economies’ stock markets and currencies took a large hit, and headlines were soon announcing the end of the emerging-market boom.
Or is the current talk about “the end of convergence” merely a reflection of financial markets’ usual overreaction to both good and bad news?
A few days ago, Greece, the most battered of Europe’s crisis countries, was able to tap global financial markets for the first time in years.
Greek and European officials hailed the bond sale as a milestone for a country that had lost access to global capital markets back in 2010.
Second, political paranoia is rising on the German right: everybody supposedly just wants Germany’s money; our Anglo-Saxon partners' real aim is to weaken us; and the financial markets will not rest until Germany has invested all of its wealth and has thus endangered its economic success.
According to a 2007 study of Lebanon’s copyright-based industries, conducted by the World Intellectual Property Organization, the main challenges facing the country’s software sector – an important part of its economy – include restricted markets, intense competition, a brain drain (loss of human capital), inadequate technology policy, a lack of government incentives, and rampant piracy.
No one knew when the markets would steady themselves or whether Trump’s vaunted tax cuts, among other policies, were fueling fears of economic over-heating and higher interest rates.
As exchange markets became ever bigger during the past 20 years, most commentators assumed that central banks’ ability to influence exchange rates through intervention had shrunk radically.
The political obsession with a better exchange-rate regime amounts to an invitation to private markets to make large amounts of money by betting against those central banks that are pressed by politicians to take a particular view of the exchange rate.
Building bigger, more integrated sub-regional markets that are deeply embedded in the global economy is one of the most urgent tasks that we are facing.
After all, from the European Union to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to the North American Free Trade Agreement, we see how geographic regions can create conditions for shared growth and prosperity by removing barriers to commerce, harmonizing regulatory norms, opening labor markets, and developing common infrastructure.
Currency movements are often described as the most unpredictable of all financial variables; but recent events in foreign-exchange markets seem, for once, to have a fairly obvious explanation – one that almost all economists and policymakers accept and endorse.
But, in another paper presented at our session, Paul Willen of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston argued that creating such a restriction is hardly the best way for a government to improve the functioning of financial markets.
The most fundamental reform of housing markets remains something that reduces homeowners’ overleverage and lack of diversification.
The US took the lead in building a system of international law, creating the UN, and fostering free trade and open markets around the world, while maintaining the security umbrella that allowed transnational institutions like the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to develop.
These considerations should lead us to focus on how to develop open societies and how to encourage greater and better integration of global markets, rather than seek to resuscitate bankrupt theories of economic autarky, self-reliance and protectionism which impede growth and inflict untold damage.
But over the next decade, the combination of markets and policies could make a big difference.
But the scale of China’s economy and its role in global trade and financial markets compel us to try to understand the intentions of China’s new leadership.
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