| Organization | Date | Title | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Monetary Fund (IMF) | 07.1.07 |
Guarding Against Fiscal Risks in Hong Kong SAR Nathan Porter The Hong Kong SAR's government faces the dual challenges of volatile revenue and medium term spending pressures arising from a rapidly aging population. Age-related spending pressures raise long-run sustainability concerns, while revenue volatility... |
Aging Population, Fiscal Policy, Hong Kong, Revenue |
| International Monetary Fund (IMF) | 07.1.07 |
Explaining China's Low Consumption: The Neglected Role of Household Income Jahangir Aziz and Li Cui The Chinese government has recently focused on the need to increase consumption to rebalance the economy. A widely held view is that despite China's remarkably high growth, the share of consumption in total expenditure has been low and declining due to... |
Consumption, Expenditure, Savings |
| International Monetary Fund (IMF) | 05.1.07 |
Pension Reform in China: The Need for a New Approach Steven Dunaway and Vivek Arora The rapid aging of China's population over the next few decades makes it important for a new pension system with broad and adequate coverage to be put in place quickly. Pension reforms, first initiated in 1997, have become bogged down in difficulties... |
Pension Reform, Rural, Urban |
| American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research | 03.1.07 |
Will India Be a Better Strategic Partner Than China? Dan Blumenthal The Joint Declaration signed on July 18, 2005, by President George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been heralded in some quarters as the equivalent of President Richard Nixon’s opening to China. The opening to China under President... |
India, Strategic Partnership, U.S.-China Relations |
| Congressional Research Service | 01.13.07 |
Is China a Threat to the U.S. Economy? Craig K. Elwell, Marc Labonte The rise of China from a poor, stagnant country to a major economic power within a time span of only twenty-eight years is often described by analysts as one of the greatest economic success stories in modern times. From 1979 (when economic reforms were... |
Economic Growth, Foreign Direct Investment, Imports and Exports, International Relations, Trade |
| World Wildlife | 01.12.07 |
The State of Wildlife Trade in China Xu Ling, Liu Xueyan, Meng Meng, Yin Feng, Dick Tong, Timothy Lam, Xu Hongfa, Joyce Wu This edition aims to highlight wildlife trade trends in threatened and at-risk wildlife from the past year, with an emphasis on the impact of China’s consumption on globally important biodiversity ‘hotspots.’ Surveys in 2007 found that while illegal... |
Sustainability, Illegal Trade, Medicine, China-Africa Relations, Food |
| Congressional Research Service | 01.4.07 |
China’s Trade with the United States and the World Thomas Lum, Dick K. Nanto As imports from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have surged in recent years, posing a threat to some U.S. industries and manufacturing employment, Congress has begun to focus on not only access to the Chinese market and intellectual property rights... |
Imports and Exports, International Relations, Trade, Currency, U.S.-China Relations, Antidumping |
| International Monetary Fund (IMF) | 01.1.07 |
Das (Wasted) Kapital: Firm Ownership and Investment Efficiency in China David Dollar and Shang-Jin Wei Based on a survey that covers a stratified random sample of 12,400 firms in 120 cities in China with firm-level accounting information for 2002-2004, the authors examine the presence of systematic distortions in capital allocation that result in uneven... |
Economic Growth, Economic Policy, State-Owned Enterprises |
| International Monetary Fund (IMF) | 01.1.07 |
China: Strengthening Monetary Policy Implementation Bernard J. Laurens and Rodolfo Maino The People's Bank of China (PBC) has made great strides in modernizing its monetary policy frameworks, but their effectiveness will diminish as the sophistication of the economy increases. Empirical evidence supports maintaining a reference to money in... |
Banking, Economic Growth, Monetary Policy |
| International Monetary Fund (IMF) | 12.1.06 |
Rebalancing China's Economy: What Does Growth Theory Tell Us? Jahangir Aziz This paper uses the standard one-sector neoclassical growth model to investigate why China's consumption has been low and investment high. It finds that the low cost of capital has been quantitatively an important factor. Theory predicts that the price... |
Consumption, Economic Growth, Investment |