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This time will be different? Addressing the unsound post-crisis drivers of global imbalances June 23, 2010 / Kati Suominen
In this chapter from Rebalancing the Global Economy: A Primer for Policymaking, the Kati Suominen urges G20 members to bolster their previously agreed ‘framework for strong, sustainable and balanced growth’ so that nations adhere to it in good times as well as bad. Washington’s goal must be fiscal policies that ensure US economic resilience and compel others to adjust; China needs to be both pressured and co-opted through institutions as well as recognize that cultivating new sources of growth is in its economic and political self-interest.



