June 15, 2018
TaiwanDifferences over Taiwan’s status fuel tensions between the island and mainland, yet cross-strait economic ties continue to deepen.
May 8, 2018
ChinaChina's current account surplus is almost certainly about $100 billion larger than officially reported, and the falling current account surplus masks a persistent manufacturing surplus.
April 24, 2018
International Economic PolicyEast Asia (China, Japan, and the NIEs) ran a $600 billion current account surplus in 2017. "Official" (central bank and sovereign fund) outflows accounted for about half of that. Asia's foreign excha…
March 9, 2018
ChinaChina seems to be aiming to cut its (central government) fiscal deficit to around 2.6 percent of GDP. That’s the new target—down from a three percent target last year (UBS think the actual deficit in…
June 5, 2005
Emerging MarketsSome things do change. For the first time in a long time, Argentina is paying its international bonds. It completed its bond exchange last week, delivered the new bonds to its investors, and made t…
October 20, 2017
ChinaAnalysis of the September intervention proxies for China and q2 Chinese balance of payments data.
September 28, 2017
ChinaGiving macroeconomic policy advice to a country that saves 46 percent of its GDP is hard. Imprudent domestic policies help limit large external (trade) imbalances, and more prudent domestic policies …
July 3, 2017
ChinaComments on an important new Federal Reserve Working Paper by Anna Wong
August 30, 2017
EurozoneFiscally Driven Rebalancing Turns Out to Be Hard
April 25, 2017
DevelopmentVoices from the Field features contributions from scholars and practitioners highlighting new research, thinking, and approaches to development challenges. This article is authored by Anna Applebaum …
