Weak household consumption and high investment in infrastructure and real estate have been the recipe of enduring growth, powered by debt - Those boosters are misfiring (or worse) - Could the economy be skidding to a halt ?
Aimed at social balance between urban and rural constituencies, reform of hukou registration is the nexus of conflicted priorities of China's central authorities, the local governments, the large export conglomerates and the Chinese middle class
A Chinese perspective lacks more often than not when Western commentators, in awe of its economic achievements, miss out on the country's challenges of domestic inequality and geopolitical insecurity
Expected to gain the upper hand in short order, China's domestic consumer market is not (yet) living up to its promises while America sticks to the self-assigned mission of gobbling up more foreign goods than ever...aggravating tensions
Correlated with tremendous GDP growth since 2000, China’s official foreign lending has transformed the Chinese government in the world’s largest official creditor, even though the loans to some of the poorest countries are 'hidden'
FinTech has opened a window of opportunities in a mostly dormant financial market and this report argues that the early stages of this financial revolution, fairly substantial in urban China, are only part of the story
The sheer magnitude of the shift in China's economy – and its harrowing speed – are worth considering and the strategies of the country's agents of change are markers for the decades to come
MSCI, the indices and data provider, will include a limited pool of some 235 mainland Chinese A-shares into its flagship emerging market index, in June and September ’18