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China is thus far more vulnerable to external shocks.
It would limit the extent to which government borrowing fuels inter-bank money creation, or at least force financiers to tie up some of their inter-bank money in the closed, domestic fiscal money system, thereby minimizing shocks from sudden capital flight.
Two external shocks – first from the US, and now from Europe – have transformed the Four Uns into an action plan.
Moreover, external shocks, policy mistakes, and political instability could disrupt even the best-laid plans.
Asian economies’ deepening trade and financial integration has left them increasingly vulnerable to growth shocks from China, with exporters of commodities and capital goods especially vulnerable.
In fact, a study by the Asian Development Bank shows that Chinese shocks have larger and more persistent effects on individual Asian economies’ output than do global shocks, as a 1% increase in China’s GDP raised GDP in emerging East Asia by about 0.6%.
With economic shocks able to spread more quickly than ever before, owing to broadened trade and financial channels, all Asian countries must maintain a sound macroeconomic environment.
Start with the fact that economic shocks – for example, inflationary spirals, depressions, and banking crises – are challenges to all governments, everywhere and always.
The size, speed and reach of shocks across mature and emerging-market countries has have increased.
Fish learn to avoid unpleasant experiences, like electric shocks.
All of this has contributed to strengthening these economies’ resilience to external shocks.
But the region is quite heterogeneous, and the severity of external shocks in 2016 varied considerably, depending on countries’ exposure and policy response.
Some countries experienced unexpectedly intense economic shocks.
More workers were forced into informal jobs or self-employment, and real wages fell, owing to higher inflation, depreciating currencies, and certain idiosyncratic supply-side shocks.
To everyone's relief, political democracy and mixed market economies proved highly resilient against the oil price shocks of the 1970s.
A fundamental shock bigger than the one in 1929-1930 hit a financial system that was much more vulnerable to shocks than was the case back then.
When shocks hit a fragile financial system, as in 2007 and 2008, the government has reason to guarantee the money market funds, as US authorities did.
The financial markets are evidently punishing the currencies of countries that, due to macroeconomic imbalances or political instability, are susceptible to external shocks of any kind.
To those who think that this is the case, Chavez is not an innovator but someone who is merely squandering Venezuela’s oil wealth in the same way that governments did following the oil shocks of the 1970's.
An accurate assessment of a country’s financial position must account for economic volatility, the risks embedded in the balance-sheet structure, and the contingent liabilities that plausible adverse shocks are likely to generate.
Though the prospect of a rising deficit and national debt in the longer term remains, the two-year budget agreement enacted by the US Congress means that the economy will not be subject to such negative fiscal shocks in 2014 or 2015.
So we have to understand and enhance general resilience – a system’s capacity to cope with a variety of shocks, in all aspects of its functioning.
The last few years have been a cascade of interconnected crises: financial panic, rising food and oil prices, climate shocks, a flu pandemic and more.
In the same way, climate shocks in parts of Europe, Australia, Asia, and the Americas contributed to soaring food prices that hit the poor and created instability and hardships in dozens of countries.
The credibility of the G8 is on the line, as the world’s poorest nations are squeezed by financial crisis, climate shocks, and unfulfilled aid promises, all beyond their control.
This shocking reversal of progress on food security is the result of many factors: climate shocks and crop failures and, of course, the global financial crisis itself.
Conversely, when the monetary authority tightens credit too quickly, asset prices become more volatile, resulting in more non-performing loans and triggering economic shocks.
Now it has been struck by a combination of prolonged deflation and the shocks caused by the recent natural disasters.
These reforms should seek to achieve a thoroughly revamped social contract that reflects the realities of twenty-first-century demographics and global markets, but that also remains sensitive to Europeans’ commitment to distributive fairness and political equality, and insures citizens against shocks.
Tantalizingly, they say that doing this would create “a market-based view of future output and the likelihood of severe shocks,” although they do not explain how this market would be structured.
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