High world oil prices and capital inflows are strengthening the balance of payments and contributing to exchange rate appreciation.

Capital account liberalization and renminbi internationalization invite potentially volatile cross border capital flows, which could, for example, trigger rapid currency appreciation. Given this, China can be expected to continue to manage capital account transactions to some extent, using macroprudential measures and, when appropriate, direct capital controls.

But whether renminbi appreciation will work depends on reducing China s net capital inflows and current account surplus. International experience suggests that, in the short run, more capital flows into a country when its currency appreciates, and most empirical studies have shown that gradual appreciation has only a limited effect on countries current account positions.

Gaining a better appreciation of the financial linkages between countries is also important. During the crisis, we saw how quickly capital fled from countries previously considered safe bets.

4. Welcomes with appreciation the offer of support from the City and State of New York, and acknowledges their efforts to make possible the implementation of the capital master plan

First, thanks to an effective albeit porous capital control regime in China, short term hot money (capital coming into China aimed at arbitrage, rent seeking, and speculation) could not enter (and then leave) freely and swiftly. Second, short term capital flows usually would strengthen rather than weaken upward pressure on the RMB s exchange rate, because speculators, persuaded by China s gradual approach to revaluation, bet on appreciation.

Even the International Monetary Fund, long the embodiment of the Washington Consensus, has acknowledged that capital controls are a legitimate part of the toolkit to manage capital flows in certain circumstances. American Congressmen view the Chinese as archetypal currency manipulators, but the Swiss have introduced a firm cap on the franc s appreciation.

Takes note with appreciation of the report on options for a future business model for the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) (DP 2005 8), presented in line with Executive Board decision 2004 37

Takes note with appreciation of the report on options for a future business model for the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) (DP 2005 8), presented in line with Executive Board decision 2004 37

The key is to reflect on six kinds of capital goods business capital, infrastructure, human capital, intellectual capital, natural capital, and social capital. All of these are productive, but each has a distinctive role.

If appreciation does not reduce the current account surplus and capital inflows, then the renminbi s exchange rate is bound to face further upward pressure. That is why some people are advocating that China undertake a one shot, big bang appreciation large enough to defuse expectations of further strengthening and deter inflows of speculative hot money.

Policymakers in many emerging market countries worry that surging capital inflows will drive up the value of the local currency, destabilize financial markets, and fuel economic overheating. Their reactions range from buying up the foreign money to prevent currency appreciation to adopting capital controls, and, in extreme cases, to keeping the money out altogether.

What matters here isn't technical capital, it's social capital.

Whereas equities have dividends, bonds have coupons, and homes provide rents, gold is solely a play on capital appreciation. Now that the global economy is recovering, other assets equities or even revived real estate thus provide higher returns.

It is hard to argue that the RMB is not undervalued, given China s large and persistent current account and capital account surpluses. But, despite ending the dollar peg, faster appreciation of the RMB seems unlikely for the foreseeable future.

The sustainable livelihood framework (SLF) proposed in the project document as a tool for analysing the success of the project is based on the following set of broad success indicators natural capital, physical capital, social capital, human capital and financial capital.

When justified by economic fundamentals, the exchange rate should be allowed to rise gradually. But when a currency s appreciation is triggered by capital inflows that represent the asset diversification preferences of advanced economy investors, it can and should be resisted.

The Board of Auditors wishes to express its appreciation for the cooperation and assistance extended by the Secretary General, the Under Secretary General for Management, the Officer in Charge of the capital master plan project and the members of their staffs.

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The least important form of capital, in this project, is financial capital money.

And what is required is a combination of physical capital, institutional capital, human capital and security, of course, is critical, but so is information.

In the early 2000s, short term capital began to flow into China, with investors betting on the renminbi s appreciation and, from 2004 2006, on rising asset prices. Since renminbi internationalization was launched in 2009, exchange rate arbitrage and the carry trade have surged.

The lesson for countries that have not yet made the leap to financial globalization is clear beware. Nothing can kill growth more effectively than an uncompetitive currency, and there is no faster route to currency appreciation than a surge in capital inflows.

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The change can be measured by real exchange rate appreciation, which consists partly in nominal renminbi appreciation against the dollar, and partly in Chinese inflation. China s government should have let more of the real appreciation take the form of nominal appreciation (dollars per renminbi).

Tax evasion and illegal export of capital are the two most common practices constituting capital flight.

Capital Master Plan (by Mr. Louis Frederick Reuter IV, Assistant Secretary General, Capital Master Plan Project)

The Committee notes with appreciation