to decouple or to couple ? a question for latin america
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To decouple or to couple ? A question for Latin America. Juan Carlos Moreno Brid Matthew Hammill Deputy Director Economic Affairs Officer ECLAC - Mexico ESCAP – New Delhi IDEAS, Chennai, January 2012. One lens : the BPC growth model. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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To decouple or to couple? A question for Latin AmericaJuan Carlos Moreno Brid Matthew HammillDeputy Director Economic Affairs OfficerECLAC - Mexico ESCAP – New Delhi
IDEAS, Chennai, January 2012
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One lens: the BPC growth model• Harrod, Prebisch, Thirlwall, Gap models• Long term growth must not generate an unsustainable balance of payments• (vs Corden at al Does the Current Account matter?)
• BPC Specifications: levels or ratios, trade and factor payments from abroad
• X – M = 0, (X – M) / Y ≤ k, interests, remittances
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Thirlwall’s model of BPC growth
Income elasticity of imports
External demand
Effect of real exchange rate cum price elasticities of trade
Income elasticity of imports
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To overcome BPC Diversify external demand,Ratio of income elasticities, internal market
industrial/trade policy, induce investment public infrastructure, income
redistributionReal exchange rate: avoid persistent appreciation
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Watch capital flows and key stock-flow ratios: Public, Private -bank and non bank- balance sheets!
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Data: Latin America’s growth linked to the US economy, 1970-05
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LA ‘s recent growth … to decoupling?
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Source: ECLAC Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean, 2012
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Some opinions… pre 2010• “When the USA sneezes, Latin America catches a cold” Popular saying
• “What crisis? Go ask Bush?”Lula de Silva, President of Brazil, mid-Sep 2008 few weeks before stock market plunged 20%.
• Now the US caught the flu, Mexico a mild coldMexico’s Central Bank late 2008
• It is going to be an economic tsunami for us Same source, some months later
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•Some aggregate data and country evidence
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LA’s exports grew faster than GDP
-12.0-10.0-8.0-6.0-4.0-2.00.02.04.06.08.0
10.012.014.016.0
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
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2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Exportaciones PIB
Export-led
growth 2.0?
Tasas de crecimiento anual 1990-2010
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Concentrated in USA and EU
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Source: ECLAC Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean, 2012
Latin America: Geographical distribution of exports, 2007-2010 (Percentage of total exports)
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And rising share of primary inputs
Fuente: Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), sobre la base de datos COMTRADE de Naciones Unidas.
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LA’s imports grew faster than exports
0.0
2.0
4.0
6.0
8.0
10.0
12.0
Argentina Brasil Chile Costa Rica El Salvador México Rep.Dominicana
ALyeCExportaciones Importaciones
Annual average rates of growth,1990-2010
Income elasticity of imports rose, in some cases it doubled
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The current account deficit widens (% GDP)
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012-3.0
-2.0
-1.0
0.0
1.0
2.0
3.0
4.0
Goods balance Services balance Income balance Current transfers balance
Current account balance
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Investment ratio peaked in 2011, but is still low
LATIN AMERICA: GROSS FIXED CAPITAL FORMATION(Dollars at constant 2005 prices as a percentage of GDP)
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The BPC, decoupling, catching-up in 1980-2011?Some evidence for selected Latin American countries
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GDP per capita (% of USA), Mind the gap: don’t stand so close to me
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
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1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
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1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
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2011
Argentina Brasil Chile México Uruguay
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Mexico’s Trade balance and growth
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GD
P a
vg a
nnua
l gro
wth
(%)
Trade balance goods and services (% GDP), average
1970-81
1982-87
1995-2000
2001-11
1988-94
1960-69
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Argentina, Trade balance and economic growth 1960-2011
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-2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Balanza comercial del ByS (% PIB), promedio
PIB,
cre
cim
ient
o pr
omed
io a
nual
(%)
1970-81 1982-87
1995-2000
2001-10
1988-941960-69
Fuente: Elaboración con base en los indicadores del WDI.
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Chile, Trade balance and growth
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-3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Balanza comercial del ByS (% PIB), promedio
PIB,
cre
cim
ient
o pr
omed
io a
nual
(%)
1970-81
1982-871995-2000
2001-10
1988-94
1960-69
Fuente: Elaboración con base en los indicadores del WDI.
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To decouple or to couple? To overcome the BPC?
A Latin American answer:
Mañana, mañana, mañana…
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Thank You
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Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid Matthew HammillDeputy Director Economic Affairs OfficerECLAC - Mexico ESCAP – New Delhi
IDEAS, Chennai, January 2012