Devaluing to Prosperity - by Surjit Bhalla (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Experts have long questioned the effect of currency undervaluation on overall GDP growth. They have viewed the underlying basis for this policy--intervention in currency markets to keep the price of the home currency cheap--as doomed to failure on both theoretical and empirical grounds. Moreover, the view has been that overvalued currencies hurt economic growth but undervalued currencies cannot help in growth acceleration. A parallel belief has been that the real exchange rate--that is, a country's competitive ranking--cannot be affected by merely changing the nominal exchange rate. This view is grounded in the belief, and expectation, that inflation follows any devaluation of currency. Hence, the conclusion that the real exchange rate cannot be affected by policy. However, given China's remarkable performance in recent decades, this traditional view is being reexamined. China devalued its currency by large amounts in the 1980s and early 1990s; instead of inflation, it achieved high growth. Today, there is near-universal demand for China to significantly revalue its currency.</p><p>This book examines the veracity of various propositions relating to currency misalignments, and their effect on various items of policy interest. The author subjects more than a century of global exchange rate management and growth outcomes to rigorous empirical analysis and demonstrates convincingly that a country can systematically devalue and yet prosper. The analysis helps in interpreting several phenomena, especially for the last three decades, which have witnessed high economic growth in developing countries, a widening of global imbalances, and a sharp increase in reserve accumulation, particularly among high-growth Asian economies. The book shows that these events are strongly linked via a consistent policy of currency undervaluation in Asian economies.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Hardly anyone on earth could have or would have written this fascinating book. Its combination of scholarly erudition, technical economics, and horse sense is rare enough. Throw in Bhalla's talent with prose and his flair for being an agent provocateur, and you have something truly unique. Read it and learn. Read it and think. Read it and be provoked.--Alan S. Blinder, professor of economics and public affairs, Princeton University<br><br>Surjit Bhalla makes a profound and important argument about the growth process and the international monetary system. The issues he raises go back to the founding of economics as a discipline, but are immediately relevant to pressing policy issues all over the world. Everyone concerned with the future of the global economy will need to consider Bhalla's extensive arguments. Whether you agree or disagree, this is a very important book.--Lawrence H. Summers, former Director of the White House National Economic Council and Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government<br><br>Surjit Bhalla presents a highly readable, topical, and provocative analysis of the role of currency misalignments buttressed by extensive empirical analysis. He argues that keeping the currency undervalued helps growth, and the effect is stronger than that of well-functioning institutions, but he also argues that misalignment creates vulnerability in the international system. The IMF must obviously look more closely into these issues in its multilateral surveillance and also in the analysis it does for the G-20.--Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of India and first Director of the Independent Evaluation Office, International Monetary Fund<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Surjit S. Bhalla is managing director of Oxus Research and Investments, a New Delhi-based economic research, asset management, and emerging-markets advisory firm. He taught at the Delhi School of Economics and worked at the Rand Corporation, the Brookings Institution, and at both the research and treasury departments of the World Bank. He has also worked at Goldman Sachs (1992-94) and Deutsche Bank (1994-96).
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