Analysis

Analysis

The global significance of China’s discussion on the economy’s ‘supply side’

  A major discussion is taking place in China on the issue of its economy’s ‘supply side’. Naturally there are aspects of this which relate ...
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One year on, impact of Xi’s agenda-setting Davos speech still felt

​Chinese President Xi Jinping’s speech to the Davos World Economic Forum one year ago, on January 17, 2017, decisively shaped international discussion - the US ...
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BRICS are more important for world growth than the G7

The annual BRICS summit, hosted by China in Xiamen on 3-5 September, is the second of two major events in China this year focused on ...
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The American Way leads to Americans dying early

American politicians remorselessly claim that theirs is the 'greatest country' and the 'American way' is the best way. But if so it poses a puzzling ...
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China is the greatest economic growth in human history

Despite increasing media reporting on China’s economy there is still a fundamental underestimation of the sheer scale of China’s economic growth. It is not generally ...
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A Copernican Revolution in Western economics & China’s supply side reform

Every 4th May is National Youth Day in China. In 2016 I was invited on that day to deliver a lecture to Chinese young economists on how developments in ...
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China is right to maintain & tighten capital controls

​During 2017 China has been tightening its capital controls to prevent any export of capital from the country not required for legitimate business expansion - ...
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The neo-con forces behind Trump’s Twitter attacks on China

Trump's Twitter storm against ChinaOn 30 July Trump unleashed a Twitter storm against China. His 1st tweet was against China on the economy: 'I am very ...
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Why China will grow rich long before it grows old

One of the biggest myths about China's economic growth, which is the greatest in a major country in human history, is that it is primarily due ...
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Why the economic reform succeeded in China & will fail in Russia and Eastern Europe

This article was written in April 1992 and originally published in Russian in September 1992 in Voprosy Economiki (Questions of Economics) in September 1992. The ...
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