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For more conventional value chains, the surplus tends to go to the inputs that have greater market power.
Business schools teach their students to capture the maximum surplus in the value chain by focusing on inputs that are difficult for others to provide while ensuring that other inputs are “commoditized” and hence cannot capture more than their opportunity cost.
This means that policies aimed at ensuring an equitable outcome should rely on either owning or taxing the inputs that capture the “team surplus.”
Of course, capturing this surplus may allow for income redistribution, as many suggest; but a much bigger and sustainable bang can be achieved if the proceeds go instead to financing inclusion.
Exchange rates should be realigned in a coordinated fashion to stimulate exports from deficit countries and import demand from surplus countries.
Perhaps the most notable consequence of Spain’s recent reform efforts is its current-account surplus – the country’s first in more than two decades.
RMB appreciation should have started earlier and at a faster pace, when China’s trade surplus was much smaller and its growth was much less dependent on exports.
In the first seven months of 2010, China’s trade surplus was $84 billion, down 21.2% from January-July 2009.
This large, steady fall in the country’s trade surplus makes the Chinese government hesitant to allow the RMB to appreciate significantly, for fear of the lagged impact on the trade balance.
True, commerce ministry officials recently declared their wish to see a further fall of China’s trade surplus in 2010.
The fall in China’s trade surplus since late 2008 is attributable mainly to the global slowdown and the stimulus package introduced by the Chinese government, rather than to changes in the RMB’s exchange rate.
As a result, balance-of-payments equilibrium would be reached at a certain exchange-rate level, but a current-account surplus (albeit smaller) would still exist.
For the time being, America’s private sector is running a surplus that is sufficient to fund roughly 75% of the government’s voracious appetite.
But the reverse is also true: as soon as the current account swings to surplus, the pressure from financial markets abates.
Far more disturbing to German pundits and policymakers is Macron’s desire for Germany to make use of its fiscal capacity to boost domestic demand, thereby reducing its massive current-account surplus.
In fact, far from viewing the current-account surplus as a policy problem, the German government sees it as a reflection of the underlying competitiveness of German firms.
A lower current-account surplus implies a more sustainable net-financial-liability position for Germany’s partners.
As a result, the trade surplus continued to fall, to $20.4 billion, fueling growing concern about a Chinese slowdown.
The average surplus on the "current" budget since this cycle began is 0.8% of GDP.
This means that the Treasury expects the average surplus since 1999/2000 to stabilize at 0.7% of GDP until the cycle ends, allowing Brown's strictures to be met.
Thanks to highly productive surplus economies, they can spend a lot more time being economically inactive.
If we generate our own economic surplus without accounting for it – what the American writer Clay Shirky calls “cognitive surplus” – how does that influence reported economic statistics and, ultimately, shape incentives and activities?
Can we apply that surplus to something “useful”?
Will the world of cognitive surplus make it easier for us to be environmentally responsible, guided also by the inclusion of externalities in the prices of physical goods, so that we end up “consuming” fewer physical things and spend more on virtual value?
On the other hand, foreign criticism of Germany for running a current-account surplus similar to China’s is unfounded.
The US was running a deficit of more than 6.5% of its GDP, and China had a surplus of close to 10% of its GDP.
Today, the US deficit has fallen to about 2%, and the Chinese surplus is less than 3%.
This comes one year after tiny Ireland received an official warning about its fiscal policies, even though Ireland's budget was in surplus, and mightily so.
While there is enough food overall, surplus food from some areas does not reach the hunger belt (Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh).
A surplus in one part of Europe means a deficit in another.
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