Borrowing in domestic currency avoids the risks associated with currency mismatches and pro cyclical foreign capital flows.

b Total public debt denominated in pesos and foreign currency.

Debt instruments linked to a foreign currency

Several speakers pointed out the importance of avoiding the accumulation of foreign currency denominated debt and borrowing in local currency as a hedge against foreign exchange rate risk.

Like the project company, the foreign construction contractors and suppliers will expect to be able to convert into foreign currency and transfer abroad any revenue earned in local currency.

Interest rates had decreased significantly for domestic and foreign currency.

I. The reception, brokerage, and investment of third parties' funds in Brazilian or foreign currency

Now that oil price has reached 80 per barrel, Russia s central bank can start buying foreign currency again. Gold and foreign currency reserves are increasing, implying appreciation of the ruble.

Currency mismatches caused by the build up of enormous amounts of foreign currency denominated debt were also identified as a major source of instability in developing countries.

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The purchase and sale of foreign currency or gold as a financial asset

In 1996, Bermuda s foreign currency earnings from international businesses grew nearly 20 per cent to US 631 million.

Australian law requires all transfers of physical currency into or out of the country of AUD 10,000 or more, or the equivalent in foreign currency, to be reported to AUSTRAC.

Foreign currency became scarce and a liquidity problem developed, leading the Government to liberalize foreign investment limits and ease access of domestic non financial firms to foreign credit.

14 An importer having to make payment some weeks in the future could know precisely the local currency cost of the foreign currency obligation by making a forward foreign currency purchase, in which the price is set today for a transaction that is to take place at the agreed future time. Futures contracts are standardized securities that serve as a forward hedge.

3 To be more accurate, the relevant foreign exchange reserves figure is the amount of free foreign exchange reserves, excluding commitments resulting from transactions in the forward currency market.

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Second, the transaction cost of using a foreign currency as a medium of exchange is inversely proportional to the extent to which that currency is used globally. Similar economies of scale characterize foreign investors use of a particular international financial center.

The gap arising from the foreign exchange conversion of a sellable cash financial asset in any foreign currency shall be recorded into the profits and losses of the current period.

However, the ability to tap into domestic savings and issue bonds in national currency reduces exposure to abrupt changes in foreign investors' confidence.

This was especially true of over the counter markets for foreign currency, securities, derivatives and repurchase agreements.

Furthermore, it led to the seizure, on the premises, of a banknote (in foreign currency) which had also been scanned and forged.

The notable exceptions to this trend are countries that manage cross border capital flows, especially the corporate sector s exposure to foreign currency debt. Indeed, certain types of capital flow management including limiting domestic debt denominated in foreign currency for both firms and households have been shown to increase resilience.

By the end of the currency crises in East Asia and elsewhere in the late 1990s, emerging market governments had learned some important lessons. Five reforms were particularly effective more flexible exchange rates, larger foreign currency holdings, less pro cyclical fiscal policy, stronger current accounts, and less debt denominated in dollars or other foreign currencies.

That the exported goods are furnished against foreign currency convertible within three months of the date of shipment.

Unless we can get foreign currency to buy tractors... there will not be enough bread for our people.

Devaluation leads to a change in the relative prices of imports, which become dearer in the national currency, and exports, which become cheaper in foreign currencies.

The hawaladar in Somalia receives the money in hard currency, mostly United States dollars, and makes the relevant transfer to the corresponding foreign hawaladar office.

However, difficulties in importing building materials due to lack of foreign currency, together with other economic difficulties, delayed the implementation of such a policy.

The sine qua non of manipulation is currency market intervention selling the domestic currency and buying foreign currencies to keep the foreign exchange value lower than it would otherwise be. To be sure, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) did a lot of this over the last ten years.

Conventional monetary policy operates by altering short term interest rates, which includes the central bank buying and selling short term government debt. No intervention in the foreign exchange market buying and selling foreign currency is involved.

The Bank of Mexico had now imposed a limit on the foreign currency denominated liabilities that commercial banks could take on.

As a result of these efforts, the renminbi has emerged as the second most used currency in trade finance, overtaking the euro, and the fifth most used for international payments. Moreover, it is increasingly preferred in currency market transactions and official foreign exchange reserves.

Another possibility is the development of foreign investment funds investing in a diversified portfolio of domestic currency denominated debt of developing countries, which provide, through diversification, risk adjusted rates of return that are attractive to foreign investors.

Consider first the claim that the dollar s status as a reserve currency protects it, because governments around the world need to hold dollars as foreign exchange reserves. The problem is that foreign holdings of dollar securities are no longer primarily foreign exchange reserves in the traditional sense.

The ECB can curb the euro s appreciation through purchases of foreign currency. But, ultimately, it would have to do so by inflating its own currency until confidence in the euro falls back to the level that it had before the assurances were made.

Our exchange rate and currency practices are being reviewed in order to guide local and foreign investors and inform them about the transaction costs of doing business.

Poverty increased, the currency suffered repeated devaluations, foreign and domestic debt registered an increase and the growth rate of the economy fell.

Certainly a lot of the discrepancy is attributable to valuation effects since 1982, the dollar value of overseas assets has increased repeatedly, owing to increases in the dollar value of foreign currency and increases in the assets foreign currency value. But part of the discrepancy also reflects the discovery of missing assets, some of which may have originated in the reinvestment of overseas income.

Net foreign currency reserves of the Central Bank dropped as a result of interventions in the market from LL 3.07 billion in December 1997 to LL 2.54 billion in March 1998.

Of course, some foreign central banks have signed currency swap agreements with China and even hold small amounts of its currency in their reserve portfolios. But these actions may be less a sign of the renminbi s inevitable march toward global dominance than a low cost bet on its likely emergence as a widely accepted international currency.

The work in this programme focuses on new forces, such as globalization, foreign investments and currency uncertainties, which are bedevilling emerging markets in the developing world and impairing equitable growth

Despite these developments, the Government of Burundi continued to pay its foreign debt servicing, thus reducing the country apos s hard currency reserves.

Until recently, Russia has pursued an admirably conservative macroeconomic policy, running up huge budget and current account surpluses. It has paid off its foreign debt and built up foreign currency reserves of 450 billion.

It was also noted that the transaction had a number of public interest benefits, such as (i) foreign direct investment (ii) foreign currency generation through exports (iii) additional employment creation and (iv) technology improvement in the local Zimbabwean furniture industry.