... t-account surplus. In 2016, Germany ran a current-account surplus of roughly 270 billion euro (US$297 billion), or 8.6 percent of GDP, making it an obvious target of Trump’s ire. And its bilateral tra ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-12
... h a trade surplus of US$38.05 billion for the month, the General Administration of Customs said. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected April shipments from the world's largest exporter to have risen ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-08
... a savings-surplus country. As a rich country, the US should be financing industrialization and development around the world, so that emerging countries can purchase US manufacturing exports. Instead, ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-04
... ficit and surplus countries – and thus a gap between actual and potential growth. With the SDR providing a stronger glue at the international monetary system’s core, prudential currency diversificatio ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-25
... t-account surplus countries. Their embrace of economic ignorance could lead to disaster. The current-account balance, measuring the balance of trade in goods, services, net factor income, and transfer ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-21
... financial surplus and reserves, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports. Wu Chi-wai, chairman of the Democratic Party, said government expenditures are unable to help the public share the economic gain ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-13
... t account surplus, a "significant" bilateral trade surplus with the United States, and persistent one-way intervention in foreign exchange markets. The Treasury is required to demand special talks wit ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-06
... lted in a surplus of men. Under the one-child policy, which was abolished just recently, this preference for sons, who parents believe would support them during their old age, led to widespread infant ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-03
... a’s trade surplus peaked at 9 percent of GDP in 2007, it adjusted to the receding price competitiveness: it has been less than half that level each year since 2010. In 2014, as the Chinese economy slo ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-23
... he fiscal surplus. Six times he cried wolf that the government’s balance sheet would sink into the red, yet that never happened. For instance, in his budget for financial year 2010/11, Tsang warned of ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-22
... ge budget surplus, the new government will also be able to invest much more in both human and physical infrastructure – efforts that the coalition’s main parties have advocated. The authorities are a ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-22
... the huge surplus for long-term interests. In fact, Chan has delivered a sensible budget. It has followed the principles of keeping expenditures within the limits of revenues, and committing resources ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-24
... 8 billion surplus for the 2016-17 financial year, public broadcaster RTHK reports. Among the relief measures, salaries taxes will be slashed by 75 percent, subject to a HK$20,000 cap, for 2016-2017. T ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-22
For more than three decades, Asia has experienced faster economic growth than any other region in the world. As it has developed, Asia has been exporting its savings, through a trade surplus with the ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-22
... rget of a surplus before debt costs of 3.5 percent of GDP from 2018 onwards. The IMF, however, has said the current reforms would only produce a 1.5 percent surplus and that income and labor market re ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-21
... The trade surplus reached US$51.35 billion last month, far above that of December. These figures have demonstrated the resilience of China’s broad economy. Historical data shows that A shares do well ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-13
... t-account surplus fell to just 2.1 percent of the gross domestic product in 2016, and the International Monetary Fund projects it to narrow further, as exports continue to fall. But the current accoun ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-01
... s a trade surplus with the US, and Trump is a vocal critic of American trade deficits. Meanwhile, many observers in continental Europe are wondering if the UK’s pursuit of a bilateral deal with the US ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-27
Japan recorded its first trade surplus in six years in 2016 amid recent remarks by US President Donald Trump about Tokyo's trade advantage against the United States. Japan’s US$60 billion trade surplu ...More
EJ Insight2017-01-26
