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Conversely, high savers like Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, South Korea, Sweden, and Switzerland all run trade surpluses.
After all, along with reduced current-account and trade surpluses, China’s consumer-led shift to saving absorption likely entails diminished accumulation of foreign-exchange reserves and reduced recycling of those reserves into dollar-based assets such as US Treasuries.
After all, the enablers – especially export-led economies like China, along with its resource-dependent supply chain – benefited from America’s consumption binge, as it drove an outsize expansion of global trade.
Periods of globalization have been eras of considerable economic advance; but they have also increased inequality within particular countries, as markets rewarded scarce factors of production, thus fueling powerful political backlashes that endangered the continuation of trade and financial integration.
There was no shortage of domestic villains: trade unions, miners, teachers, doctors, the BBC, ethnic minorities, the Scots, the Welsh, and Irish Catholics.
The Obama administration’s decision to maintain trade and investment sanctions on Burma in the absence of meaningful change, particularly with regard to the Burmese government’s intolerance of political opposition, is correct.
In places like south Lebanon, which suffer from deep social cleavages and inequalities, free elections and free trade hold little resonance for people who are impoverished and marginalized.
Sovereignty was shared and transformed in areas like trade and the environment.
Excluded from many occupations, they, too, survived by clannishness and trade.
Indeed, Chinese trade and investment are spurring market activity in North Korea’s northern region.
For decades, trade has been the modus operandi of U.S foreign policy in the region, but some administrations have had broader agendas.
In the last 16 years, however, the Democratic and Republican presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush have offered virtually the same take: free trade all the way.
Say what you want about free trade, but in many countries, humans have replaced sugar, bananas and coffee as the number one export.
So, absent any sense of vision — maybe that comes after the election — we’re back to trade that dominates what discussion there is of Latin America in the campaign.
Although Clinton and Obama have been insistent that North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) will be renegotiated around labor and environmental concerns -- even threatening to opt out of that trade deal — opting out is highly unlikely.
But, again, Obama was the earliest and the most insistent on more equitable fair trade, so he’s the more likely to have a different take than his rivals.
Obama has consistently been opposed to the trade agreement with Colombia.
But, alas, this is only one trade agreement, not a vision.
According to a recent poll by the German Marshall Fund, majorities in France, Germany, and the United States favor maintaining existing trade barriers, even if doing so hampers economic growth.
The economic case for a European globalization fund is that trade policy has been delegated to the European level, while Union members retain control rights to block decisions.
Consider the hypothetical example of full trade liberalization in textiles, which would have greatly asymmetric effects between, say, Sweden, with hardly any textile industry, and Portugal, with a substantial one.
Manufacturing Workers 24 Months after Layoff in the EU15Source : OECDThrough the EGF, part of the cost of helping displaced textile workers would be borne by all EU countries, thereby making wider trade liberalization a more likely prospect.
In principle, a web of bilateral transfer arrangements could achieve such an unblocking of trade.
In practice, however, such transfers hardly ever take place, so the potential gains from opening trade may fail to materialize.
It will, one hopes, provide a detailed blueprint for the development of large-scale transactions-intensive industries such as wholesale and retail trade, domestic transport and supply-chain logistics, health care, and leisure and hospitality.
At a minimum, the ECB has made it clear to one and all--politicians, trade unions, and the markets-- that its’ long period of monetary inactivity is coming to an end.
For starters, world trade is growing at an anemic annual rate of 2%, compared to 8% from 2003 to 2007.
Whereas trade growth during those heady years far exceeded that of world GDP, which averaged 4.5%, lately, trade and GDP growth rates have been about the same.
Even if GDP growth outstrips growth in trade this year, it will likely amount to no more than 2.7%.
At the same time, countries were amplifying one another’s growth through trade.
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