Asia's dollar dilemma: Lessons from Japan Asia's current account surplus economies have long been exporters of capital to the rest of the world. Through the mid- 2010s, widening external surpluses led to strong EM Asia central bank FX reserve accumulation, fueling demand for global fixed income assets in general, and for US treasuries in particular. But the drivers of this flow are shifting. Rather than central banks, in several economies the private sector is emerging as the more significant channel for re ...

Turkeykey's economy, once tipped to repeat the success of South Korea's transformation, is in a rut. The reason is the tough measures needed to rescue the country from the balance of payments crisis it faced 2 years ago. But the arrest this March of Istanbul mayor and star opposition politician Ecram Imamolu made matters worse.It led to mass riots and caused the financial panic which forced the central bank to jack up interest rates again. Around a thousand domestic companies have filed for bankruptcy so fa ...

智通财经APP获悉，6月20日，香港政府统计处发布2025年第一季香港国际收支平衡及国际投资头寸的 初步统计数字，并一并发布同期的香港对外债务的初步统计数字。香港于2025年第一季录得854亿港元 的国际收支赤字（相当于本地生产总值的10.7%），而储备资产相应地减少同等数额。2024年第四季则 录得314亿港元的盈余（相当于本地生产总值的3.8%）。 经常账户 2025年第一季的经常账户录得1252亿港元盈余（相当于本地生产总值的15.7%），这反映香港储蓄多于 投资，令其累积对外金融资产（例如股本证券或债务证券），在环球金融波动时提供缓冲。与2024年第 一季的953亿港元经常账户盈余（相当于本地生产总值的12.4%）比较，盈余增加主要是由于初次收入 净流入和服务贸易盈余增加所致。 在2025年第一季季末，香港的对外金融资产和负债总值均处于很高的水平，分别为544851亿港元（相当 于本地生产总值的17.0倍）和375622亿港元（相当于本地生产总值的11.7倍），这是一个重要国际金融 中心常见的特点。 在2025年第一季季末，香港的对外金融资产净值（即资产扣除负债）达169229亿港元（相当于本地生产 ...

2025 BASIC STATISTICS Data Division Economic Research and Development Impact Department | CORE INDICATORS | C | Total | Average | Proportion of | Proportion of | Nominal | Annual | Per Capita | Inflation | Current | o | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Population | Annual | Population below | Population | Gr ...

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE REPORT ST. LUCIA Report on External Sector Statistics Mission (October 28–November 1, 2024) JANUARY 2025 Prepared By Felipe Estacio de Lima Correa MEMBERS Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Sint Maarten, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands PARTNERS Canada, Uni ...