Controlled dollar devaluation only hope to avert currency war
Thursday, October 07, 2010
CAREFUL calibration of a US dollar devaluation looks to be the only way to avert the sort of currency war flagged by Brazil and others, leaving G20 powers the unenviable task of agreeing some control of the process.
The top world economies, shaken by three years of financial turmoil, are scrambling to cap or weaken their currencies in a fight over fragile global demand for exports – prompting retaliatory capital curbs and damaging trade rows.
As G20 finance chiefs prepare to meet on October 22, they are no closer to resolution of the decade-old bugbear of global imbalances between export-driven economies – mostly developing nations such as China, but also Japan and Germany – and the big global consumers, the United States, Britain and elsewhere.
Faced with fiscal exhaustion, hostile electorates and China’s refusal to allow a rapid rise of the yuan, the US, Japan and possibly Britain seem set on another bout of money printing to reboot their economies and weaken their currencies.
France, which takes G20’s rotating chair next month, has denied weekend reports of "secret negotiations" with China. But it’s clear that patience in the status quo is running out.
"To avoid the damaging consequences of continued unilateral action... a core group of major economies needs to agree urgently on a multilateral and coordinated package of policy measures," Charles Dallara, director of banking group the Institute for International Finance, said.
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