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Dealing with Inflows: Kazakhstan’s Experience, 2004-06

Dealing with Inflows: Kazakhstan’s Experience, 2004-06. Aasim M. Husain April 2007. Outline. Impressive macro performance Volume and types of inflows Outflows Scaling the net inflows Policy responses Lessons. Macro Achievements. Real GDP growth around 10% or more since 2000.

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Dealing with Inflows: Kazakhstan’s Experience, 2004-06

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  1. Dealing with Inflows:Kazakhstan’s Experience, 2004-06 Aasim M. Husain April 2007

  2. Outline • Impressive macro performance • Volume and types of inflows • Outflows • Scaling the net inflows • Policy responses • Lessons

  3. Macro Achievements

  4. Real GDP growth around 10% or more since 2000

  5. Per capita quadrupled; unemployment fell

  6. Social indicators improved

  7. Inflation was tamed (In percent)

  8. Confidence in banks improved,dollarization declined

  9. Kazakhstan’s Forex Inflows

  10. Types of inflows, 2004-06 • Oil export receipts • Non-oil exports • FDI • Bank borrowing

  11. Volume of inflows (In billions of dollars)

  12. Types of outflows • Imports (goods and services) • FDI debt amortization • Income to direct investors • Bank lending abroad

  13. Volume of outflows (In billions of dollars)

  14. Net inflows (In billions of dollars)

  15. Scaling the inflows

  16. Policy Responses

  17. Handling the monetary impact • Policy: offset through NFRK • Other outflows (bank assets, E&O, labor rem.) • Result: reserve increase (one half of net inflows) • Policy: partial sterilization through: • Issuance of paper • NBK deposit window • Reserve requirements

  18. Monetary impact of inflows (In billions of tenge)

  19. Monetary response to inflows (In billions of tenge)

  20. Result: rapid money growth

  21. Prudential measures • Open forex limits • Forex liquidity • Tighter classification and provisioning • Risks weights for cross-border lending • External borrowing limits

  22. Exchange rate policy (Index; Jan 2000=100)

  23. Tenge: De Facto Flexibility(Proportion of monthly exchange rate changes that were less than +/- 1 percent)

  24. Tenge appreciation has helped with inflation (In percent)

  25. Fiscal policy—saving oil revenue (In percent of GDP)

  26. Fiscal policy—prudent stance but monetary impact

  27. Lessons and Policy Implications

  28. Managing the inflows • Monetary, exchange rate, prudential, and fiscal policies have played a role • But money/credit growth remains very high • External indebtedness of banks continues to rise (rapidly) • And inflation persisting at a relatively high level

  29. Implications for near-term policy mix • Further monetary tightening absorb liquidity • Further prudential tightening to mitigate risks • Measures to slow external borrowing • Measures to slow credit growth and maintain loan quality • Exchange rate appreciation/flexibility • Help with inflation • Remove one-way bet to facilitate flexibility • Which should reduce speculative inflows • These steps needed to permit the planned fiscal easing without pushing up inflation

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