And, as many have argued, the correlation itself could be the result of low growth leading to high indebtedness, rather than the other way around.

Emerging Europe s Deleveraging Dilemma

Economic deleveraging takes time.

7. Welcomes initiatives that have been undertaken to reduce outstanding indebtedness

MUMBAI The ongoing weakness of America s economy where deleveraging in the private and public sectors continues apace has led to stubbornly high unemployment and sub par growth.

But the deleveraging process will be gradual and orderly.

With everyone busy deleveraging, economies failed to recover.

Across virtually all the major indicators including equity and housing price runs ups, trade balance deficits, surges in government and household indebtedness, and pre crisis growth trajectories red lights are blinking for the US.

To quit the eurozone would only increase their level of indebtedness.

Indebtedness must also be properly incorporated into the scale methodology.

The consequences of this excessive indebtedness will take years to undo.

Moreover, global deleveraging is asymmetric, with Latin American economies growing fast and advanced markets lagging all of which may call for a real exchange rate correction and thus justify revaluation of the region s major currencies.

Then eurozone deleveraging kicked in, and now the child in the poster is in serious trouble.

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In an open economy, deleveraging does not necessarily impair the tradable sector so thoroughly.

The middle class might turn against the party. Because economic distress harms different social groups simultaneously, it could facilitate the emergence of a broad anti CCP coalition.

Yet the financial crisis and the ensuing recession go only so far towards explaining these high levels of indebtedness.

In the US, economic deleveraging has proceeded significantly further than it has in Europe.

The potential systemic crisis threatens to accelerate deleveraging further, with serious consequences for emerging Europe.

Under these conditions, deleveraging could put emerging Europe on a more sustainable growth path.

Second, Chinese growth will fall under either scenario.

Higher prices can mean higher incomes for them.

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I would like to point out that indebtedness is a form of bondage and indebted economies are economies that function under constraints.

The yen s weakening will mean higher import costs, and therefore a higher rate of inflation.

All of this represents an utterly unexpected recovery from the vast public and private external indebtedness of just a decade ago.

What this line of research explicitly does not tell us is that deleveraging will restore growth by itself.

And, given Japan s high level of public indebtedness, the risks of collateral damage and unintended consequences are potentially higher.

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History shows that rising inflation is eventually followed by higher nominal interest rates.

Two intriguing observations emerge from these two scenarios.

It will take years to overcome the excessive indebtedness and real estate overhang that resulted.

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As for African countries, the politics and economics of globalization have stripped them of their assets and natural resources and left them with an unbearable debt burden.

The increased indebtedness of households is already leading to higher bankruptcy rates, and will likely dampen the recovery.

Japan s experience shows that a recession that results from a financial crisis can be extremely prolonged, because deleveraging is a long process.

Since their creation in Prussia in 1769 under Frederick the Great, not a single Pfandbrief has defaulted.

Bank lending to sovereign borrowers has been a double disaster, fostering over indebtedness, especially in countries with irresponsible or corrupt governments.

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