The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth by Barry Naughton

The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth



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But surely this couldn't also hold . Whether it's the EU, Japan or India shameless propaganda about current and future prospects for rapid unabated growth fall painfully flat. That question has been front and center in the past weeks as the country completes its leadership transition and after the exposure of its various real estate bubbles during a widely watched 60 Minutes exposé this past It would also mean a collapse of Chinese imports of materials such as copper, which would in turn harm economic growth in emerging countries that continue to be a prime market for American, Asian and European goods. The Chinese Coal Bubble - The Huffington Post. High and sustained GDP growth rates were based on elevated The metamorphosis of the dragon may involve painful growing pains, including the risks of a hard landing that many analysts attribute to the current transition. The Chinese pattern of rapid growth with structural change has been accompanied by rising economic imbalances, just as the main pillars of growth seem to be gradually weakening. China's transition from a coal exporter to a coal importer in recent year is a huge paradigm shift that is NOT going to reverse, especially as it took China only TWO years after joining the coal importers' club since 2009, to become the No. Amidst increased domestic concern over inequality and corruption, GFI's study raises serious questions about the stability of the Chinese economy merely two weeks before the once-in-a-decade leadership transition. Exports have The transition to a consumption-led economy will be long and bumpy. Like most Asian economies, the Chinese government has based its overall growth rate on exports, which is demonstrated in the top chart. McKinsey Quarterly (January 2013): China's economy is starting its historic shift to a more consumption- and service-driven model that should help sustain the country's growth, albeit at a slower rate, over the next decade and beyond. On the side of western-style democracy stood Minxin Pei, the director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College and author of China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy in which Pei examines the sustainability of the Chinese On the economic front, China's growth has been driven by investments at home and exports to developed countries—trends that are not sustainable in the long run. The volume of trade misinvoicing between mainland China and the United States rose to US$72.0 billion before the financial crisis of 2008, but has declined since then, probably as a result of lower growth in bilateral trade between the countries. When I chat with people about China's economic growth, I often hear a story that goes like this: The main driver's behind China's growth is that it uses a combination of cheap labor and an undervalued exchange rate to create huge trade surpluses.