{"id":14495,"date":"2021-05-06T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/05\/06\/coface-quarterly-barometer-us-leads-the-global-recovery-emerging-economies-lag-behind\/"},"modified":"2021-05-06T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T01:00:00","slug":"coface-quarterly-barometer-us-leads-the-global-recovery-emerging-economies-lag-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/05\/06\/coface-quarterly-barometer-us-leads-the-global-recovery-emerging-economies-lag-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Coface Quarterly Barometer: US leads the global recovery, emerging economies lag behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n                            <!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p>HONG KONG SAR &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media&#13;<br \/>\nOutReach<\/a> &#8211; 6 May 2021 &#8211;<b> More&#13;<br \/>\nthan a year after the start of the pandemic, global economic trends are uneven&#13;<br \/>\ndue to lingering uncertainties around the spread of COVID-19. The acceleration&#13;<br \/>\nof the vaccination process, as well as its effectiveness, are key to an&#13;<br \/>\neconomic recovery. <\/b>In&#13;<br \/>\nthis context, the prospects for a return to normalcy are both uneven and&#13;<br \/>\nuncertain across sectors of activity and geography,<b> according to the latest barometer from Coface, a&#13;<br \/>\nleading player in the credit insurance industry.<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b><img src=\"https:\/\/release.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/Images\/Thumb\/500x0\/148149\/Coface-APR-Q1-2021-EN.jpg#image-148149\" width=\"500\"\/><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>As outlined in the barometer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coface.com\/\">Coface<\/a> assumes that <b>the&#13;<br \/>\neconomic recovery will gain momentum from the summer of 2021<\/b>, when a large&#13;<br \/>\nenough share of the population in the United States and Europe will be&#13;<br \/>\nvaccinated. However, there is a risk of delay in the vaccine roll-out, notably&#13;<br \/>\ndue to supply constraints for manufacturers, resulting from shortages of&#13;<br \/>\ncertain components and export restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Nevertheless, Coface&#8217;s global growth forecast has been revised upwards&#13;<br \/>\nby half a point (+5.1% for 2021), thanks to stronger than expected growth in&#13;<br \/>\nthe United States.<\/b> In this more&#13;<br \/>\nfavourable macroeconomic outlook, Coface is upgrading 35 sectors of activity&#13;<br \/>\nagainst only 3 downgrades. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>In addition to the United States, several other sectors of the world&#13;<br \/>\neconomy \u2013 industry and global trade \u2013 are likely to return to their pre-crisis&#13;<br \/>\nlevel of activity by the summer. Nevertheless, other sectors are lagging&#13;<br \/>\nbehind, notably in services and especially those that involve physical contact&#13;<br \/>\nwith customers, and across the European economies. Finally, in some major&#13;<br \/>\nemerging economies, the recovery is also being held back by rising inflation,&#13;<br \/>\nwhich is forcing central banks to tighten monetary policy. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<h3><b>US economy goes into &#8220;high&#13;<br \/>\npressure&#8221; mode<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of 2021, the balance of surprises is tilting to the&#13;<br \/>\npositive side, despite the many health uncertainties. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>The expected growth gap between the eurozone and the United States is&#13;<br \/>\nusual, particularly in a recovery phase<\/b>.&#13;<br \/>\nThis is partly due to weaker automatic stabilizers in the US, which accelerate&#13;<br \/>\nadjustments in employment and income. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>But this time, the reasons for the for the US growth gap are different:&#13;<br \/>\nless restrictive mobility restrictions than in the eurozone, both in 2020 and&#13;<br \/>\nearly 2021, and a more rapid vaccine deployment. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Differences&#13;<br \/>\nin economic policy may also explain US outperformance. The US Federal Reserve&#13;<br \/>\n(Fed) has increased the size of its balance sheet. Its asset purchase program&#13;<br \/>\nrose by about 13% of GDP in 2020, compared with 9% for the European Central&#13;<br \/>\nBank (ECB). <b>Finally, and most importantly, greater fiscal support will allow&#13;<br \/>\nthe US economy to return to its pre-crisis GDP level more quickly<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Adopted&#13;<br \/>\nin March 2021, <b>the new US support plan amounts to 1.9 trillion dollars&#13;<br \/>\n(USD),<\/b> and will bring the total fiscal response to the crisis to an amount&#13;<br \/>\nequivalent to 27% of US GDP, more than any other mature economy. <b>Coface expects that the public deficit could be up to 56\u00a0billion&#13;<br \/>\ndollars higher than it would have been without the stimulus package<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>The aim of this strategy is to put the US economy under &#8220;high&#13;<br \/>\npressure&#8221;<\/b>, i.e. to implement<b> expansionary&#13;<br \/>\nmonetary and fiscal policies that encourage a return to work for the least&#13;<br \/>\nemployable people <\/b>(long-term unemployed or inactive due to discouragement,&#13;<br \/>\nlow-skilled people and categories of the population suffering from&#13;<br \/>\ndiscrimination in hiring).<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<h3><b>Eurozone:&#13;<br \/>\ncorporate insolvencies remain hidden<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>The eurozone is unlikely to return to its pre-crisis GDP level before&#13;<br \/>\n2022<\/b>. If the main mobility restrictions are lifted by the&#13;<br \/>\nend of the summer, this will go hand in hand with a gradual halt to business&#13;<br \/>\nsupport measures, which could cause unemployment to rise. In addition, the&#13;<br \/>\nincrease in corporate debt \u2013 made possible by government-guaranteed loans \u2013 is&#13;<br \/>\nlikely to limit their investment capacity.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Until&#13;<br \/>\nnow, the main government support measures implemented in 2020 have not yet been&#13;<br \/>\nwithdrawn. <b>Despite the stabilizing effect of government aid, the financial&#13;<br \/>\nhealth of companies has deteriorated significantly in 2020,<\/b> which should&#13;<br \/>\nnormally lead to an increase in insolvencies. According to Coface, <b>insolvencies&#13;<br \/>\nin 2020 should have increased by 19% in Spain, 7% in Italy and 6% in France and&#13;<br \/>\nGermany. Coface estimates the number of hidden insolvencies at 44% of those&#13;<br \/>\nrecorded in France in 2019, 39% for Italy, 34% for Spain and 21% for Germany.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<h3><b>Emerging&#13;<br \/>\neconomies: rising inflation forces central banks to tighten monetary policy<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>According to the International Monetary Fund&#8217;s April 2021 forecasts, <b>emerging&#13;<br \/>\neconomies will be more permanently affected by the current crisis than mature&#13;<br \/>\neconomies<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>In 2024, GDP in emerging economies will be 4% lower than it would have&#13;<br \/>\nbeen had it not been for the COVID crisis. For mature economies, the gap would&#13;<br \/>\nbe only 1% (compared to 10% following the global financial crisis). There are&#13;<br \/>\nseveral reasons for this expected lag between the recovery of mature and&#13;<br \/>\nemerging economies.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>First,&#13;<br \/>\n<b>the vaccination process is more advanced in mature countries<\/b>, even if&#13;<br \/>\nsome emerging economies are well on track, such as the United Arab Emirates,&#13;<br \/>\nChile and, to a lesser extent, Turkey and Morocco, where at least 10% of the&#13;<br \/>\npopulation had been fully vaccinated by April 8. But apart from these few&#13;<br \/>\ncases, <b>the fact that the United States and Europe have acquired the majority&#13;<br \/>\nof vaccinations means fewer doses for other countries.<\/b> Among the four main&#13;<br \/>\nvaccine-producing areas (China, the United States, Western Europe and India),&#13;<br \/>\nthe temptation to implement protectionist measures is increasingly strong. For&#13;<br \/>\nexample, India has already announced a temporary halt to the export of vaccines&#13;<br \/>\nto prioritize vaccine deployment in India, where the number of cases has risen&#13;<br \/>\nsignificantly since the beginning of March.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>In&#13;<br \/>\naddition to these uncertainties, <b>many emerging economies are doubly hit by&#13;<br \/>\ntheir exposure to economic sectors hardest hit by the crisis<\/b> (tourism and&#13;<br \/>\ntransport in particular). <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>On&#13;<br \/>\nthe positive side, however, the rise in the price of oil and agricultural&#13;<br \/>\ncommodities is good news for economies that suffered from the opposite trend&#13;<br \/>\nlast year. In addition, the positive outlook for US consumption should fuel&#13;<br \/>\nstrong export volumes, especially among consumer goods producers.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>On&#13;<br \/>\nthe other hand, <b>the widening of the US budget deficit is encouraging capital&#13;<br \/>\noutflows from emerging markets<\/b>, as upward revisions of the US GDP growth&#13;<br \/>\noutlook push up long-term US interest rates, narrowing the gap with its&#13;<br \/>\nemerging market counterparts, and making the latter less attractive to&#13;<br \/>\nfinancial investors. This has resulted in a depreciation of emerging&#13;<br \/>\ncurrencies, notably in Turkey and Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The complete barometer is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coface.com.hk\/content\/download\/191592\/3175837\/file\/COFACE_BAROMETER_Q1-2021-MEL.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-05-06\/76566\/coface-quarterly-barometer-us-leads-the-global-recovery-emerging-economies-lag-behind\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG SAR &#8211; Media&#13; OutReach &#8211; 6 May 2021 &#8211; More&#13; than a year after the start of the pandemic, global economic trends are uneven&#13; due to lingering uncertainties around the spread of COVID-19. The acceleration&#13; of the vaccination process, as well as its effectiveness, are key to an&#13; economic recovery. 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