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Whereas Ban’s predecessor, Kofi Annan, was independent enough to endorse efforts to conclude the Doha Round of global trade negotiations, and advance a global compact on immigration (I advised him on both issues), the Obama administration has shied away from these issues.
But macro-level policies, such as liberalization of trade and investment, privatization, and so forth, are powerful engines of poverty reduction; indeed, they are among the key components of the reforms that countries like India and China embraced in the mid-1980’s and early 1990’s.
For nearly seven decades, Commonwealth states have been global leaders on trade, female empowerment, natural-resource protection, and many other issues.
On balance, that is easily 1-1.5 percentage points below the developed world’s longer-term, or potential, growth trend – a worrisome outcome, to say the least, for employment, deflation risk, global trade, and export-dependent developing economies, such as China, which remain heavily reliant on external demand in developed countries.
While the meaning of “coordinated” has not been spelled out, it presumably implies that the national exit strategies should not lead to significant changes in exchange rates that would upset existing patterns of trade.
In fact, however, exchange rates will change – and need to change in order to shrink the existing trade imbalances.
The end of the Cold War undercut the foreign-policy logic behind America’s backing, as increasing globalization of trade and investment made economic support for developing countries seem less necessary as a way to expand markets.
To this end, the White House is investing enormous effort and political capital in two major trade deals – the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the Trans-Pacific Partnership – despite domestic opposition.
But, while America’s economic woes and hyper-polarized political climate have undoubtedly contributed to the decision to favor controversial trade deals over international financial institutions that the US created and nurtured, what is really driving the policy shift are fundamental geopolitical changes.
By contrast, the US market’s enduring weight amplifies America’s bargaining power in plurilateral trade agreements, which also serve the country’s immediate commercial interests.
And World Bank lending is helping the middle-income countries that are increasingly competing with the US in global trade, while boosting demand for private – that is, American – capital.
The gargantuan US trade deficit?
Interestingly, both sides cite America’s gaping trade deficit – believe it or not, the US is soaking up two-thirds of global excess saving – to support their arguments.
Perhaps the biggest weakness in the true believers’ argument is the trade deficit.
Individually, these are each highly plausible scenarios, and collectively they would hit the US trade deficit like a perfect storm.
We are better targeting our external assistance and capacity building programs, and we are ready to use our trade and economic muscle, when necessary, by demanding counter-terrorism clauses in bilateral treaties.
Part of the slowdown relates to the terrorist attacks of September 11th, but it is becoming clear that America’s economy, and other economies linked to the US through trade and production networks, were sliding into recession before September.
Over the last decade, trade liberalization and monetary integration supported the expansion of market-based financing in Europe.
In trade zones formed by heterogeneous states, vested interests tend to be diverse and find it hard to lobby at the supranational level.
One would expect that the trade balance soon turns around and helps put a stop to any furthersharpYen rise.
As a result, with Japan dumping its large trade surplus and foreign portfolio, and without an offsetting buyer of the dollars, the Yen just keeps rising more and more.
The picture is complicated by the intense trade conflict between the USA and Japan.
Europe accepts the arrangement and responds with similar trade restraints.
But viewed from the perspective of trade competitiveness, a DM link is precarious unless wages are strongly tied to the DM.
One way or other, instability of the key currencies aggravates the difficult task of macroeconomic management and trade development in emerging and transition economies.
America’s Saving PerilsNEW HAVEN – US politicians invariably bemoan trade as the enemy of the middle class, the major source of pressure on jobs and wages.
When it comes to trade, as I recently argued, America has made its own bed.
The data show that countries with saving deficits tend to run trade deficits, while those with saving surpluses tend to run trade surpluses.
The United States is the most obvious example, with a net national saving rate of 2.6% in late 2015 – less than half the 6.3% average in the final three decades of the twentieth century – and trade deficits with 101 countries.
The United Kingdom, Canada, Finland, France, Greece, and Portugal – all of which have large trade deficits – save much less than other developed countries.
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