Who has the most wiggle room?
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2012/01/emerging-economies
This
article is about how emerging economies can be very tied to other more
developed economies, typically through exports. It has been suggested recently that the Euro Zone crisis may cause another recession. Because of this when other more
developed countries get into trouble financially, there can be great
consequences for this happening. It reminds me of the saying "The US
sneezes and Europe catches the cold." There will be less demand for the
goods and services that the developing countries are exporting, and therefore
they will have a decrease in capital entering the country. In this article they
make an index for "monetary manoeuvrability
and fiscal flexibility" which they have coined "wiggle-room
index." This attempts to measure what emerging economies will be in the
best shape if there is another recession. This means that they will be able to sustain growth even through another recession. The top three are Saudi Arabia,
Indonesia, and China. This was very interesting to me, because a lot of times we don't think about how one economy will hurt another, particularly when they are not in close proximity.
1 comment:
I'm really liking this concept of relying on one another to work together for the betterment of the whole. It possible that if the emerging economies work together they could make some magic?
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