Global imbalances still on the rise, IMF paper shows

Efforts have been made to cut current account imbalances

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Countries with large deficits have taken steps to reduce them since the global financial crisis – largely through expenditure reduction rather than expenditure switching – but although current account imbalances have shrunk, stock imbalances continue to increase, according to a new IMF working paper.

In Global imbalances and external adjustment after the crisis, IMF economist Gian-Maria Milesi-Ferretti and Philip Lane of Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, find that pre-crisis external

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