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The new finance minister, Lou Jiwei, comes to the ministry from the China Investment Corporation, China’s sovereign wealth fund, where he dealt with global capital markets on a daily basis.
Governments around the world are spending money on regulating and monitoring their stock markets so that they are safer for individual investors, and so that investor interest in these markets will grow.
Whatever traditional benefit remains would not be enough to live on; retirees would be at the mercy of the markets for the bulk of their income.
For example, though Libya’s economy is almost entirely dependent on Western expertise and markets to produce and consume its oil, former leader Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi pursued a virulently anti-Western foreign policy.
We have gone from managerial to stockowner capitalism, from economies with large doses of state direction to far more deregulated markets, from the active and expansive social policies of the 1960s’ and 1970’s to a world in which such spending is constantly shrinking.
And, with the rise of biofuels, the food and energy markets have become integrated.
Markets are fundamentally social institutions, and they require regulation to allocate resources efficiently.
In the last quarter-century, under-regulated markets have been the root cause of many adverse economic outcomes, including the 2008 financial crisis and untenable levels of inequality.
For markets and non-market actors alike, the state is indispensable to effective regulation.
Saudi warplanes have bombed homes, markets, hospitals, and refugee camps in Yemen, leading critics to accuse the Kingdom of deliberately terrorizing civilians to turn public opinion against the Houthis.
In the Doha trade negotiations, industrialized nations accepted the need to liberalize their agricultural markets by reducing subsidies to domestic producers and tariff barriers on agricultural imports.
The key to boosting those gains, according to the IADB, is to adopt a new strategy that expands access across and within markets.
This suggests that, for the UK, mega-regional trade agreements – which provide access to multiple markets, but entail lower levels of fiscal and regulatory integration than the EU – are the best way forward.
After all, it is this approach that would enable UK firms to position themselves in well-developed and integrated supply chains, serving much larger markets than those to which a bilateral agreement would grant them access.
This experience demonstrates the limitations of bilateral agreements, especially in a world where supply chains and markets extend far beyond the countries involved.
This perception of “Muslims” as being the “other” or the “foreigner” is the central factor that incites discrimination in the job or housing markets.
For example, stricter loan-to-value-ratio limits and higher capital requirements for banks could slow credit growth when housing or commercial real-estate markets are overheating.
The system worked well until the early 1990s, when Asia’s financial markets were opened to international capital markets.
But it was only around 1990 that most emerging markets threw caution to the wind and removed controls on private portfolio and bank flows.
Finally, exposure to the discipline of financial markets would make it harder for profligate governments to misbehave.
In fact, many emerging markets experienced declines in investment rates.
The main problem seems to be the paucity of entrepreneurship and low propensity to invest in plant and equipment – what Keynes called “low animal spirits” – especially to raise output of products that can be traded on world markets.
Given all the effort that the world’s “emerging markets” have devoted to shielding themselves from financial volatility, they have reason to ask: where in the world is the upside of financial liberalization?
Labor markets are cool, or at least, certainly not hot.
He argues that developing countries have suffered greatly from China’s policy of undervaluing its currency, which has made it more difficult for them to compete with Chinese goods in world markets, retarded their industrialization, and set back their growth.
Debt capital markets provide an important asset class for institutional investors, and give large corporations an alternative to bank loans.
But much has changed with the rise of China, which is now one of the largest corporate-bond markets in the world.
Still, the biggest risks appear to be in emerging markets such as China, India, and Brazil.
Already, 25-30% of bonds in these markets have been issued by companies at a higher risk of default (defined as having an interest-coverage ratio of less than 1.5).
Within these emerging markets, some sectors are more vulnerable than others.
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