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OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Fiscal and trade imbalances

Fiscal and trade imbalances

Nature

Fiscal and trade imbalances threaten to provoke recession, reduce opportunities for sustaining and increasing world economic growth and hamper the growth of developing nations. Because of fiscal and trade imbalances developing nations face the risk of prolonged stagnation in real per capita income, greater poverty and social unrest.

Broader

Sectoral imbalances
Unpresentable
Inadequate fiscal policies
Yet to rate

Narrower

Weakness in trade among developing countries
Excellent
External debt
Excellent
Weakness in trade between different economic systems
Presentable
Imbalance of payments
Presentable
Imbalance between agricultural exports and imports
Presentable
Deterioration of international terms of trade
Presentable
Imbalance in international trade patterns
Unpresentable
Large trade surpluses
Yet to rate

Aggravates

Restrictive trade practices
Excellent
External debt crisis
Excellent
Inadequate domestic savings
Presentable

Aggravated by

Structural imbalances among and within the three largest market economies
Unpresentable
Imbalance in economic relationships among countries
Unpresentable

Strategy

Regulating world trade
Presentable
Unbalancing economies
Yet to rate
Balancing trade
Yet to rate
Balancing power
Yet to rate
Balancing external trade
Yet to rate
Balancing economies
Yet to rate

Value

Imbalance
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(C) Cross-sectoral problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Commerce » Taxation
  • Commerce » Trade
  • Societal problems » Imbalances
    • Content quality
    Presentable
     Presentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    C4879
    DOCID
    11348790
    D7NID
    146368
    Last update
    Oct 4, 2020