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India’s foreign-exchange reserves stand at $278 billion (about 15% of GDP), enough to finance the entire current-account deficit for several years.
Similarly, the creation of international strategic resource reserves on neutral territory and under neutral management could help alleviate concerns about politically motivated disruptions.
But the central government enjoyed a 28% increase in revenues over the last year, and has more than $3 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves.
Human capital – not natural resources, production capacity, or financial reserves – should constitute the foundation of Russian and European development policies.
The renminbi offshore market, which has strengthened considerably over the last few years, would lose value, forcing the People’s Bank of China to channel foreign-exchange reserves toward that market to offset the decline.
Already, China’s reserves have declined considerably – by $87.2 billion last month alone.
Five years ago, Pan Yingli of Shanghai Jiao Tong University projected that, without accounting for other currencies’ incumbency advantage, the renminbi’s share of foreign-exchange reserves worldwide could reach 26% by 2025 (about the current level of the euro).
When the notional value of foreign-exchange swaps ($115 billion) is netted out, the share of short-term public debt (foreign and domestic) covered by international reserves is below the critical threshold of 100%.
Argentina reportedly has the world’s third-largest shale-gas reserves, after the US and China.
Surely, the technical challenges of exploiting such shale-gas reserves are huge, and only a handful of firms in the world have the necessary knowhow.
The credit channel also is not working properly, as banks have hoarded most of the extra liquidity from QE, creating excess reserves rather than increasing lending.
Forest reserves are more plentiful in Indonesia and Brazil.
All countries are concerned about security of energy supplies as reserves of fossil fuels dwindle, as well as about the sometimes wild fluctuations in the price of oil, coal, and gas.
Some African countries are comparatively stable and prosperous, and the Continent possesses a youthful population that will soon top one billion people, abundant mineral reserves, and an inherent dynamism.
The US has the largest recoverable shale-gas reserves and the second-largest recoverable shale-oil reserves in the world.
Nevertheless, financial investors are increasingly worried that inflation will eventually begin to rise, owing to the large expansion of commercial bank reserves engineered by the United States Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank (ECB).
They note that the enormous expansion of commercial banks’ reserves has not led to a comparable increase in the supply of money and credit.
While reserves increased at an annual rate of 22% over the past three years, the broad monetary aggregate (M2) that most closely tracks nominal GDP and inflation over long periods of time increased at less than 6% over the same three years.
In past decades, large expansions of bank reserves caused lending surges that increased the money supply and fueled inflationary spending growth.
But now commercial banks are willing to hold their excess reserves at the Fed, because the Fed now pays interest on those deposits.
The ECB also pays interest on deposits, so it, too, can in principle prevent higher reserves from leading to an unwanted lending explosion.
When the economic recovery begins to accelerate, commercial banks will want to use the large volume of reserves that the Fed has created to make loans to businesses and consumers.
Moreover, manipulation of official statistics highlights the problems of an economic model based on peso depreciation and the accumulation of reserves.
Equally disturbing has been the continuing reluctance of international leaders to provide new financial commitments to Ukraine, despite growing pressure on its foreign-currency reserves and the specter of a full-blown financial meltdown.
For the clumsiness of Chancellor Kohl in seeking to force the Bundesbank to revalue Germany's gold reserves (a fiscal fudge designed to allow Germany to meet the Maastrich criteria), and the fact that after the victories of Tony Blair in Britain and Jospin in France only Germany and Spain are now ruled by governments of the Right, should facilitate the search for a compromise.
Yes, China continues to accumulate a vast fund of foreign-exchange reserves.
This type of single accounting would reduce the central bank’s equity capital, unless it realized (sold) valuation reserves on its balance sheet.
Add to that the impact of the depletion of valuation reserves and the risk of negative equity –developments that could undermine the credibility of central banks and thus of currencies – and it seems clear that helicopter drops should, at least for now, remain firmly in the realm of academic debate.
Yet the IEA also argued that the shortfall will be made up from greater exploitation of unconventional oil and gas reserves, albeit at far higher prices, owing to the greater environmental and extraction costs.
The six biggest Middle Eastern oil-producing countries officially hold around 740 billion barrels (Gbs) of proven oil reserves.
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