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The United States and the PRC: Macroeconomic Imbalances and Economic Diplomacy

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  • Levy, Philip

    (Asian Development Bank Institute)

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The People’s Republic of China (PRC)’s current account surplus, its growing foreign exchange reserves, and its shifting policies on exchange rate adjustment have become a central preoccupation of United States (US) trade policy. The paper considers the evolving political economy of the US policy stance and of the PRC’s response; it assesses the opportunity costs of an approach that has sometimes focused on the exchange rate to the exclusion of other issues; and it explores the ramifications for economic governance in the short- and medium-run.

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Paper provided by Asian Development Bank Institute in its series ADBI Working Papers with number 328.

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Length: 36 pages
Date of creation: 02 Dec 2011
Handle: RePEc:ris:adbiwp:0328
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Keywords: macroeconomic imbalances; exchange rate adjustment; prc; united states; exchange rate adjustment;

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