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Second, food reserves should be established, not only for humanitarian supplies in disaster-prone, infrastructure-poor areas, as Zoellick proposes, but also as a means to support stable revenues for agricultural producers and ensure affordable food for the poor.
If managed in ways that are transparent and participatory, and if countries combine their efforts regionally, food reserves can be an effective way to boost sellers’ market power and counteract speculation by traders, thereby limiting price volatility.
Most oil-producing countries have already started to cut expenditures, borrow, and draw down their reserves.
But countries with large external imbalances, low reserves, or high debts will increasingly feel financially constrained, if they don’t already.
Already, Douglas Flint, the chairman of HSBC, Europe’s biggest lender, has declared that the bank reserves its right to “move people between London and Paris.”
Several estimates indicate that, given the additional demand for reserves, the world could absorb annual allocations of $200-300 billion or even more.
Though the US no longer needs Saudi oil, thanks to its shale reserves, it does need the Kingdom to regulate production and thereby stabilize markets.
Without the development of reserves, countries will need to revert to liquid fuels, at higher cost and larger carbon dioxide emissions.
In the eurozone and Japan, taxing banks that hold reserves (negative-interest-rate policy) will also encourage more bank lending, and thus stimulate growth.
It is the fear of having to pay for expensive medical conditions that now drives individuals to accumulate substantial cash reserves.
The bulk of bottled water sold worldwide is drawn from the subterranean water reserves of aquifers and springs, many of which feed rivers and lakes.
Tapping such reserves can aggravate drought conditions.
The paper value of the fossil-fuel reserves – most of them owned by the supermajors – is some $28 trillion.
He approved oil exploration in closed nature reserves, and also systematically fought to suppress scientific evidence on climate change.
To minimize that risk, the Troika reserves currently devoted to the Greek bailout should be used to limit exchange-rate overshooting; capital controls would help, too.
Their exchange rates are now flexible, they have built large foreign-currency reserves, and they have limited their foreign-currency debt.
But some countries are at risk, especially those with large current-account deficits, large foreign capital inflows relative to the size of their financial markets, and low foreign-exchange reserves.
But it would at least head off one danger, namely the urge to accumulate even more reserves.
Pooling regional reserves as a way of making them go further is a better alternative.
Better management of China’s considerable public assets – which include $3.5-4 trillion of foreign-exchange reserves, substantial land holdings, and majority ownership of the state-owned enterprises that dominate the economy – would complement these efforts.
This partly explains the current tensions between China and Japan over their conflicting territorial claims to islands in the East China Sea, which occupy an area of only seven square kilometers, but are surrounded by rich hydrocarbon reserves.
For starters, running surpluses against the US implies accumulating foreign-exchange reserves.
China needs to stop accumulating foreign-exchange reserves.
Estimates of its newfound oil reserves place it in eighth place among oil-producing nations, ahead of Nigeria as well as Brazil’s rival for influence in Latin America,Venezuela.
Modest estimates put these reserves at around 30 billion barrels.
The discoveries are the largest oil reserves discovered in the ocean in recent years.
Brazil’s new oil reserves will certainly affect regional geo-politics.
The size of the new oil reserves adds even more weight to Brazil’s growing global influence.
Potential borrowers have been accumulating massive reserves and pooling them regionally to protect themselves against shocks and speculative capital, but not at the Fund’s urging.
On the contrary, accumulating reserves beyond a certain threshold carries a high opportunity cost and suggests the need to let the currency appreciate.
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