This article puts forward the view that there are considerable benefits to be gained from foreign borrowing and that policy actions of a macro nature should be diverted towards internal balance.In Section 2 a brief history of the evolution of approaches to the current account is set out. Recent...

This paper assesses the policy significance of foreign liabilities and the current account deficits that give rise to them. Current account imbalances are shown to have some capacity to indicate difficulties elsewhere in the economy, but are imperfect indicators and subject to potential...