Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 23

7-Jun-2010

The Five Currency Manipulating Countries: China Is Singled Out

By Shawkat Hammoudeh

Dr Hammoudeh is Professor of Economics and International Business at Drexel University. He can be reached at hammousm@drexel.edu.

A bipartisan bill is being advanced in the US Congress to label five East Asian countries as currency manipulators. These countries are China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Taiwan and Singapore. Israel is well known on the website of the New...