Devaluation Current Affairs, GK & News

Devaluation of Currency

The Currency devaluation is the deliberate reduction in the value of a country’s currency against another currency. It is used by monetary authorities when they need to improve the country’s trade balance by increasing exports if and when the trade deficit becomes a problem for the economy. The monetary authority then sets a lower exchange ..

Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs

Topics: Currency • currency basket • Devaluation • Export • Import

United States designates China as currency manipulator

The United States has designated China a “currency manipulator”, following the devaluation of the Yuan. The move could escalate the tense trade relations between the two nations. The US action came after China allowed its yuan to weaken past the key seven-per-dollar level for the first time in more than a decade. This decision will ..

Topics: Balance of trade • Currency • currency manipulator • Devaluation • Economy • Foreign exchange market • International macroeconomics • Macroeconomics • Monetary hegemony • Money • National accounts

What is Balance of Payments?

Balance of Payments (BOP) is a systematic and summary record of a country’s economic and financial transactions with the rest of the world, over a period of time, say one year. Structure of Balance of Payments The format of the balance of payments given below shows the important types of transactions that enter the balance of ..

Topics: Balance of Payments • Current Account • Devaluation • Economy • Foreign exchange reserves • Import • imports • International macroeconomics • Invisible balance • Invisible Exports • Invisible Imports • Macroeconomics • National accounts • Tariff • World economy