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Since the beginning of this year, regulators have also begun to rein in shadow banking, which gained ground in the wake of the global economic crisis.
Chinese policymakers now must determine how to unify the official and shadow rates without excessively disrupting the system – an objective that is made all the more challenging by the government’s recent decision to give market forces a greater role in resource allocation.
The current divergence between official and shadow lending rates parallels the gap between the renminbi’s official and swap market (unofficial) exchange rates in the 1980’s.
The private sector, too, built up debt, with its limited access to equity capital driving firms to the shadow banking sector.
China’s lengthening shadow has prompted a number of Asian countries to start building security cooperation on a bilateral basis, thereby laying the groundwork for a potential web of interlocking strategic partnerships.
While the authorities’ response a decade ago did avert a sharp recession, it also paved the way for many other problems, including soaring debt levels for local governments and state-owned enterprises (SOEs), the expansion of shadow banking, the re-emergence of excess capacity in several sectors, and a decline in the relative strength of private firms.
He argued at that time, and rightly in my view, that short-term tax reductions and transfers would be partly saved, not spent, and that public debt would multiply and create a long-term shadow over the fiscal balance and the economy.
Undoubtedly, in addition to formal means of implementation, the impressive shadow of the World Bank, with its powerful influence over developing countries’ access to international markets, plays a key role.
The good news is that some governments have already moved to establish a shadow cost for CO2 emissions.
The global financial crisis occurred because we ignored externalities – shadow prices and institutions – allowing instability and inequality to proliferate.
After all, many changes in the competitive environment within which banks operate – new payment systems, peer-to-peer lenders, shadow banks, and the rest – require careful analysis and thought.
This led to a split between the state’s official institutions and Qaddafi’s shadow revolutionary apparatus.
They have moved swiftly to address many of them, especially those posed by excess leverage, shadow banking, and property markets.
Some observers argue that more should be done to contain risk in the system; to the extent that risk has simply shifted from banks to shadow banks, they may be right.
All are casting a shadow on the future of the global economic system.
On the contrary, argues Princeton political scientist Jan-Werner Mueller in his new book: populism is a “permanent shadow” on representative democracy.
Over the last year alone, China’s authorities have steadily tightened regulations governing the crypto-currency Bitcoin, B2C financing platforms, shadow banking, cross-border capital flows, and debt and securities markets.
It is living in dread, with millions pushed into the vortex of war by an unrestrained and unhinged US military machine, and with billions living in the shadow of nuclear annihilation.
All officials and people related to him now live under the shadow of the executioner, for he is certain to bear the blame when the dynasty needs a scapegoat for its mounting problems.
Investment is still the Chinese economy’s main driver, but it has led to soaring debt and a bloated shadow banking sector, which the authorities are trying to rein in.
Domestic financial instability, associated with liberalization, also has a large impact on economic performance, as does the lack of control over non-bank financial intermediaries – an issue that China is now starting to face as the shadow banking sector’s contribution to credit growth becomes more pronounced.
But we need to pay as much attention to the people living in the mountain’s shadow.
Even if regulatory harmonization does not create a race to the bottom, the interests of investors and exporters will cast a longer shadow than before over social and environmental goals.
But in Pakistan, as in Thailand, the army’s shadow looms large.
Israel's bombing of the Osirak reactor must, therefore, be regarded as a "preemptive" or a "preventive" strike--words meant to capture the shadow land of self-defense.
In the shadow of this second Afghan war, Osama bin Laden established his terrorist organization in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan: Al Qaeda, which, on September 11, 2001, carried out its terrible terrorist attack on the US.
Rugova and his adherents stuck to their remarkable peaceful methods and "shadow administration" of Kosovo in hope that some international, mainly Western, help would eventually come to relieve the situation.
All the while, the fighting and ruined cities of Chechnya cast a shadow on the otherwise much more complex encounter of Russia with the Islamic world.
The recent bankruptcy of the major shadow lender IL&FS has exacerbated the credit squeeze.
Ultimately, however, the measures should enable China’s shadow banking system to continue to grow at a more manageable pace and in a more sustainable way.
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