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Financial globalization: Retreat or reset? - 60 percent decline

Financial globalization: Retreat or reset?

March 2013—Cross-border capital flows remain 60 percent below their precrisis peak, and growth in financial assets around the world has stalled. Continued retrenchment could jeopardize investment and recovery unless policy makers can "reset" the financial system for a healthier flow of financing that supports economic growth.more

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reportEmerging Equity Gap

The emerging equity gap: Growth and stability in the new investor landscape

December 2011—Short of a very rapid change in investor behavior and adoption of new policies in the largest emerging economies, the role of equities in the global financial system may be reduced in the coming decade.more

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reportDebt and deleveraging: Uneven progress on the path to growth

Debt and deleveraging: Uneven progress on the path to growth

January 2012—Reducing debt in mature economies continues to be a long and slow process. But lessons of history show that with the right reforms during deleveraging, countries can return to robust long-term growth.more

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Mapping global capital markets 2011

August 2011—The 2008 financial crisis and worldwide recession halted a three-decade expansion in global capital and banking markets. Today, growth has resumed, fueled not only by expanding developing economies but also by a $4.4 trillion increase in sovereign debt.more

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Debt and deleveraging: The global credit bubble and its economic consequences (Updated analysis)

July 2011—MGI has updated its analysis of how total public and private-sector debt has evolved relative to GDP for selected economies.more

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Farewell to cheap capital
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Farewell to cheap capital? The implications of long-term shifts in global investment and saving

December 2010—By 2020, half of the world's saving and investment will take place in emerging markets, and there will be a substantial gap between global investment demand and the world's likely saving.more

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Global credit bubble
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Debt and deleveraging: The global credit bubble and its economic consequences

January 2010—The recent bursting of the great global credit bubble has left a large burden of debt weighing on many households, businesses, and governments, as well as on the broader prospects for economic recovery in countries around the world. If history is a guide, one would expect many years of debt reduction, which would exert a significant drag on GDP growth.more

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An exorbitant privilege
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An exorbitant privilege? Implications of reserve currencies for competitiveness

December 2009—Could the US prioritize domestic growth and jobs over its global responsibilities, sparking greater currency volatility that threatens competitiveness?more

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Global capital markets: Entering a new era

September 2009—Mature financial markets may be headed for slower growth, while emerging markets will likely account for an increasing share of global asset growth.more

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Power brokers crisis update
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The new financial power brokers: Crisis update

September 2009—Although their paths are diverging, all will remain powerful forces in the global economy.more

Unleashing the Chinese consumer
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If you've got it, spend it: Unleashing the Chinese consumer

August 2009—By pursuing a more aggressive program of comprehensive reform, China's leaders could raise private consumption above 50 percent of GDP by 2025, vaulting China's economy into a new phase.more

New power brokers faring the financial market
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The new power brokers: How oil, Asia, hedge funds, and private equity are faring in the financial crisis

July 2009—Asian sovereign and petrodollar investors emerged as more influential than ever from the financial crisis, while hedge funds and private equity saw their previously rapid growth interrupted.more

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Will US consumer debt cripple the economy?
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Will US consumer debt reduction cripple the recovery?

March 2009—US consumers are spending less and saving more. Unless incomes grow faster, each percentage-point increase in the saving rate would reduce spending by more than $100 billion—a serious drag on any recovery.more

198 trillion

The total value of the world’s financial assets as of 2010 more