Otaviano Canuto talks about RMB joining SDR basket

It took several years of deliberation before the inclusion of China’s Renminbi in the SDR basket was approved by the International Monetary Fund's board of directors. RMB’s global reserve status also means it will become the first emerging market currency that can be used to settle IMF credits and debts, and the World Bank's Executive Director, Otaviano Canuto, calls the move a "win-win for China and the world."

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RMB “into the SDR basket” is a win-win situation

  https://youtu.be/M7DAi_U65rU   And here I speak English at China's CCTV and CNTV on the entry of the Renmimbi into the IMF's SDR basket of currencies   Also: [朝闻天下]人民币正式“入篮” 美国 世行执董:人民币“入篮”是双赢_CCTV节目官网-CCTV-13_央视网(cctv.com)…

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Cocoa beans are processed into cocoa liquor at the Golden Tree cocoa processing and chocolate plant in Tema, Ghana, June 27, 2006. (Photo by Jonathan Ernst)

Calibrating 2014

The global economy looks poised to display better growth performance in 2014. Leading indicators are pointing upward – or at least to stability – in major growth poles. However, for this to translate into reality policymakers will need to be nimble enough to calibrate responses to idiosyncratic challenges.

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Elephants and Macro-Financial Linkages

Emerging Markets (EMs) are more likely to suffer shocks, such as commodity-price and terms-of-trade shocks, as well as surges and sudden stops in capital flows.. Furthermore, structural and institutional features typical of most EMs tend to amplify and propagate shocks. Even when asset price-led cycles are not generated within EMs, they tend to be affected the most due to capital flows.

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