"Examines the large imbalances in the world economy that contributed to the financial crisis of 2000-09, especially among those economies ordering the Pacific with the large deficits in the United States and the offsetting surpluses in East Asia, and how national policies could be coordinated to...

The objective of this paper is to explore how the external balance of the United States (US) might evolve in future years as the economy emerges from the recession. We examine the issue from the domestic perspective of the saving and investment balance and from the external side in terms of the...