In Latin America and the Caribbean and Asia, services trade deficits have shown positive signs of reducing over the past decade, whereas in the Middle East and the transition economies deficits have grown.

There is nothing progressive about large budget deficits and a rising debt to GDP ratio. After all, large deficits have no reliable effect on reducing unemployment, and deficit reduction can be consistent with falling unemployment.

Because of economic recession, it was often not possible to reduce budget deficits, either by reducing government expenditures or by increasing taxes.

The European Union s Maastricht criteria, which cap deficits at 3 of GDP, belong in the same category a measure that could be relaxed as the political pressure changed, but which did help initially in reducing deficits and borrowing costs.

Given Europe s fiscal deficits and the economic impact of reducing them, that is a huge potential prize. But, first, the issues depressing the carbon price must be addressed.

Unless and until the US faces up to its chronic aversion to saving namely, by reducing massive federal budget deficits and encouraging the rebuilding of severely depleted household saving multilateral trade deficits will persist. Simple arithmetic and basic economics tell us that a multilateral problem cannot be addressed by a bilateral solution.

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Attention switched to the problem of fiscal deficits and the relationship between deficits and economic growth. Should governments deliberately expand their deficits to offset the fall in household and investment demand?

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If Italy, Spain, and France were not part of the eurozone, they could allow their currencies to devalue weaker exchange rates would increase exports and reduce imports, eliminating their current account deficits. Moreover, the increase in exports and the shift from imports to domestically produced goods and services would strengthen their economies, thereby reducing their fiscal deficits as tax revenues rose and transfers declined.

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But, in large part and with a few exceptions in Central and Eastern Europe emerging market economies improved their fiscal performance by reducing overall deficits, running large primary surpluses, lowering their stock of public debt to GDP ratios, and reducing the currency and maturity mismatches in their public debt. As a result, sovereign risk today is a greater problem in advanced economies than in most emerging market economies.

These achievements would contribute to enhancing economic growth and reducing poverty, reducing child mortality and improving maternal health, and reducing the spread of HIV.

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Moreover, because fiscal austerity stifled economic growth, it made the task of reducing budget deficits and national debt as a share of GDP much more difficult. Cutting public spending, it turned out, was not the same as cutting the deficit, because it cut the economy at the same time.

Indeed, the deflationary spiral, particularly in Greece and Spain, is causing output to contract so rapidly that further spending cuts and tax increases are not reducing budget deficits and public debt relative to GDP. And Europe s preferred solution more austerity is merely causing fiscal targets to recede faster.

Germany and France have proposed stricter rules on borrowing and spending, backed by tough, semi automatic sanctions for governments that do not comply. Countries that repeatedly ignore recommendations for reducing excessive deficits, and those that manipulate official statistics, should have their EU funds frozen and their voting rights suspended.

Normally, by decreasing prices relative to their more fiscally sound neighbors, struggling countries can boost exports, thereby reducing their current account deficits. But, in the case of the euro crisis, price stickiness caused inflation to increase more in debtor countries than in creditor countries, making adjustment even more painful.

High unit labor costs and unemployment rates are responsible, in turn, for reducing the trend rate of economic growth, mainly owing to under utilized labor, while the combination of lackluster growth and an ever mounting welfare burden has resulted in chronic budget deficits. The last surplus was in 1974.

In fact, US trade deficits are primarily the result of insufficient, mainly government, saving not a misaligned exchange rate, as economists have led policymakers to believe. Large US budget deficits during Ronald Reagan s presidency generated the famous twin fiscal and trade deficits of the 1980 s.

But if the government starts reducing its own deficit before private sector spending recovers, the net result will be a further decline in total spending, and hence in total income, causing the government s deficit to widen, rather than narrow. True, if governments stop spending altogether, deficits will eventually fall to zero.

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Within national income accounts, trade deficits represent the excess of a country s consumption over production. From an accountant s perspective, that makes it logical to label trade deficits as negative savings.

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However, the rapid expansion in domestic demand resulted in remarkable trade deficits.

Over the last two years, the eurozone's other peripheral countries have proven their capacity for adjustment, by reducing their fiscal deficits, expanding exports, and moving to current account surpluses, thereby negating the need for financing. Indeed, Greece is the only one that has consistently dragged its feet on reforms and sustained abysmal export performance.

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