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China prepares to take the wheel at the G20
Author: Adam Triggs, ANU The G20 is often referred to as the world’s ‘steering committee’ and in less than five months China will be firmly behind the wheel. At recent G20 summits and meetings in...
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The G20 is not ready for the next crisis
Author: Adam Triggs, ANU One-third of the IMF’s funding will evaporate over the next two years as bilateral loans negotiated in 2012 start to expire. This is a major problem. In a global economy...
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G20 leaders falling US$4 trillion short of growth target
Author: Adam Triggs, ANU The IMF gave G20 leaders some bad news in Turkey: they are not doing enough to lift growth. The G20 has not implemented enough of their previous commitments and their goal of...
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IMF reform agenda good news for Asia
Author: Adam Triggs, ANU On 4 February IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde warned that the global financial safety net — the international resources and institutions designated to fight economic...
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China must broaden its priorities for a successful G20 summit
Author: Adam Triggs, ANU In December 2015, China announced that its priorities for the upcoming G20 Hangzhou summit were to make the global economy more innovative, invigorated, interconnected and...
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Is Asia doing the heavy lifting in the G20?
Author: Adam Triggs, ANU In 2014 the G20 promised to implement country-specific reforms to increase G20 GDP by 2 per cent by 2018, or about US$2 trillion. But according to the IMF’s latest forecasts...
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Global imbalances are back
Author: Adam Triggs, ANU In 2010 then US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner wrote a letter to G20 finance ministers. He recommended that each country pledge to keep current account surpluses and...
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Germany’s anti-Trump G20 agenda unveiled
Author: Adam Triggs, ANU When outlining the agenda for Germany’s 2017 G20 presidency, Angela Merkel spoke of challenges ranging from pandemics to geopolitical conflict. She also had a blunt warning for...
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Is the G20 backing down on its fight against protectionism?
Author: Adam Triggs, ANU Some worrying headlines have come out of the meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in Germany over the weekend. The headlines warn that the G20 has been...
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Divided G7 an opportunity for Asia and the G20
Author: Adam Triggs, ANU The G7 is falling apart. Russia has been isolated. The United Kingdom has isolated itself. Germany continues a tense relationship with much of Europe. The NATO alliance has...
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The G20 toughs it out in Hamburg
Author: Adam Triggs, ANU The emergency services weren’t the only ones putting out fires in Hamburg last weekend. German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, was busy chairing the most divided G20 summit in the...
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South Korea at the strategic heart of Australia’s Northeast Asian economic...
Authors: Peter Drysdale and Adam Triggs, ANU and Brookings The geopolitical risks surrounding South Korea are now on everybody’s mind. But in the past two decades they’ve had remarkably little impact...
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Facility shopping is fanning financial risks
Author: Adam Triggs, ANU Argentina has announced that it is seeking financial support from China to help manage its currency crisis. It is engaging in a process that has become known as ‘facility...
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The G20 must not surrender to bilateral bullying
Author: Adam Triggs, ANU US President Donald Trump is no fan of the G20. His extreme views and unreasonable demands mean G20 meetings have quickly become the ‘G19 versus one’. Bilateral deals are a...
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What the looming US recession means for Asia
Author: Adam Triggs, ANU Signals that predict US recessions are far from perfect. But what is striking is just how many of them are now flashing red. The next US recession is a question of when, not...
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Competition in Asia: too little of a good thing
Authors: Adam Triggs and Jake Read, ANU Weak competition is worrying Western economies. It has been linked to inadequate investment, mounting mark-ups, increasing inequality, weak wages, struggling...
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Finding the right amount of independence for Asia’s central banks
Authors: Adam Triggs and Jake Read, ANU March 2019 saw Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte move his Budget Secretary, Benjamin Diokno, to govern the central bank. The press was quick to call this a...
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Jokowi back to the job of dealing with financial market realities
Authors: Adam Triggs, ANU, Febrio Kacaribu, University of Indonesia, and Jiao Wang, University of Melbourne Rising interest rates, an appreciating US dollar and tighter global financial conditions are...
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Trade tensions will persist until global financial imbalances are addressed
Author: Adam Triggs, ANU Donald Trump is no fan of US trade deficits. He has used them justify his trade war with China, his threats to leave the World Trade Organization (WTO), his refusal to...
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US institutions will keep Trump’s currency war at bay, but for how long?
Author: Adam Triggs, ANU ‘China has always used currency manipulation to steal our businesses and factories, hurt our jobs, depress our workers’ wages and harm our farmers’ prices’ tweeted the...
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