Fiscal and trade imbalances

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.

1. Sectoral imbalances
2. Inadequate fiscal policies

1. Weakness in trade between different economic systems
2. Weakness in trade among developing countries
3. Large trade surpluses
4. Imbalance of payments
5. Imbalance in international trade patterns
6. Imbalance between agricultural exports and imports
7. External debt
8. Deterioration of international terms of trade

1. Restrictive trade practices
2. Inadequate domestic savings
3. External debt crisis

1. Structural imbalances among and within the three largest market economies
2. Imbalance in economic relationships among countries

1. Unbalancing economies
2. Regulating world trade
3. Balancing trade
4. Balancing power
5. Balancing external trade
6. Balancing economies

1. Imbalance