This makes economies significantly less vulnerable to external shocks.

External shocks brought about by climate change will directly affect advanced economies.

Globalization has increased the vulnerability of the developing and transition economies to adverse external shocks.

This balancing act is difficult to maintain, leaving these economies vulnerable when the external environment turns unfavorable.

Small island developing States have open, small scale economies with limited resources, and are highly dependent on external markets and resources.

A successful Doha Round would thus complement the international collaborative efforts underway, with IMF involvement, to tackle external imbalances among the major economies.

Now, in a low inflation environment, flexibility is properly regarded as an important tool to avoid misalignments and to shield economies from external shocks.

Two kinds of institutions in particular need shoring up conflict management institutions to enhance economies resilience to external shocks, and institutions that promote productive diversification.

With thriving economies came increased strategic clout, leading to the rise of regional geopolitics shaped by national interests and fears, rather than by external forces.

So far, China has looked to external markets so that exporters can achieve the economies of scale needed to improve quality and move up the value chain.

I would like to conclude my statement by emphasizing the importance of the role played by the external environment with regard to the economies of developing countries.

Following the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990 s, emerging economies began to accumulate massive foreign exchange reserves to protect themselves against the risks of external over indebtedness.

Emerging economies, following the advanced countries, also attached less importance to Fund surveillance, especially as their accumulation of external assets made them less dependent on IMF financing and advice.

Demand is therefore being drained out of the eurozone economies, with stronger external demand, stemming from the euro s depreciation against other major currencies, unable to offset the effect on growth.

But, just as the eurozone s struggling economies have an overvalued currency, Germany has an undervalued one, which tends to produce external surpluses and, by definition, an excess of savings over investment.

Economies, Keynes believed, can become stuck in prolonged periods of under employment equilibrium in such cases, an external stimulus of some kind is needed to jolt them back to higher employment.

All of the major emerging economies face weakening external demand, but India s slowdown has been exacerbated by a drop in investment that reflects a deeper loss of official direction and business confidence.

These, too, had external effects but, at least in the short run, the medicine (distortions in capital markets) was generally considered less damaging than the disease (economic collapse in the advanced economies).

Overly dependent on external demand from crisis battered developed economies, China has adopted the pro consumption 12th Five Year Plan, which lays out a powerful rebalancing strategy that should drive development for decades.

Most of these economies can avoid the worst if they implement the appropriate policy adjustments and if the international financial institutions (including the IMF) provide enough lending to cover their external financing needs.

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These structural changes have put most Latin American economies on a sound footing, reducing their vulnerability to external shocks, such as deceleration in world economic growth, higher international interest rates, and lower commodity prices.

As a result, living standards in Mexico have fallen further behind the US and most emerging market economies. Probably no other country in the world presents a starker contrast between external success and domestic failure.

Moreover, the economies that managed to narrow their external gaps with the US substantially after World War II, notably Germany, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan, ran current account surpluses throughout their rapid growth periods.

Firstly, it would stabilize intraregional trade by pre empting relative shifts in the intraregional exchange rate structure. Secondly, it would insulate domestic economies from external developments, thereby permitting monetary policy to focus on redressing unemployment.

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This external dependence increases their vulnerability to external economic threats and shocks.

Today, however, the catalytic power of Deng s initial changes has waned, with rising wages, weakening external demand, and increasing competition from other emerging economies indicating the exhaustion of a growth model premised on exports and investment.

The world economy was facing several constraints of a structural nature, most notably the rising external deficit of the United States and the growing surpluses in several economies of Asia and Europe and oil exporting States.

Greece is also the canary in the coal mine for the euro zone, where all the PIIGS economies (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Spain) suffer from the twin problems of public debt sustainability and external debt sustainability.

The case of Far Eastern economies has clearly demonstrated that both internal (i.e., protectionism) and external (i.e., foreign protectionism) constraints on trade must be addressed if trade is to become an engine of growth and poverty reduction.

Sustained growth and an improved enabling environment would also make these economies more attractive to external private capital investment, which, together with higher levels of domestic savings, should eventually replace official development financing in the long term.

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Like the advanced economies, emerging economies experienced a boom in 2000 2007.

In that sense, although China, with its 3.5 trillion stock of foreign exchange reserves, may seem to exemplify emerging economies tendency to be over insured against external risks, it actually faces the same credit risks as its counterparts.