Current Account Sustainability; Selected East Asian and Latin American Experiences
A number of developing countries have run large and persistent current account deficits in both the late seventies/early eighties and in the early nineties, raising the issue of whether these persistent imbalances are sustainable. This paper puts forward a notion of current account sustainability and compares the experience of three Latin American countries-Chile, Colombia Mexico-and three East Asian countries-Korea, Malaysia and Thailand. It identifies a number of potential sustainability indicators and discusses their usefulness in predicting external crises.
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1996-10-01
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Authors: | Razin, Assaf ; Milesi-Ferretti, Gian-Maria |
Institutions: | International Monetary Fund (IMF) |
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