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The Curious Case of China’s GDP Figures
Early this year, China found a missing province, one doing very well for itself. The total GDP for 2012, according [...]
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China’s Path to Urbanization
As more than 200 million people board buses, trains, and planes for lunar New Year celebrations in their ancestral homes [...]
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China, America and the WTO
Growing tensions in U.S.-China trade relations generated by the rapid expansion of Chinese exports to the U.S. have led both countries [...]
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China’s People Problem
On January 18th, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced that China’s working age population (ages 15-59) had declined in [...]
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The Meaning of China’s Economic Slowdown
More than a year ago I, along with several colleagues, published a paper entitled “When Fast Growing Economies Slow Down.” [...]
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China’s Luxury Goods Boom
The Chinese may have an age-old reputation as great savers, but China's young people are now making up for generations [...]
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WikiLeaks, Hollywood and GDP
The WikiLeaks cables have plenty of material on China, making them something of a must-read for Chinese intellectuals. So I [...]
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China’s Inflation Challenge
This weekend saw the annual Central Economic Work Conference, during which the government analyzes the current year’s data with a [...]
