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11.04.24
How Much Will New Stimulus Improve China’s Economic Outlook?
After months of downbeat economic news and little action from the Chinese government, Beijing has announced a slew of stimulus measures. Are the stimulus measures enough to make a difference and are they going to work as long as secular trends like...
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07.25.18China Stimulates Again, but Don’t Expect Fireworks
Wall Street Journal
The country’s main stock benchmark was up 1.6% Tuesday, after a call from China’s cabinet overnight for more fiscal spending, abundant liquidity, and—perhaps most significant—support for the “reasonable” fundraising needs of local governments’...
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09.07.16Goldman Sachs: China Signaling Further Stimulus on the Way
CNBC
The bank pointed to China’s State Council meeting this week, which discussed plans to streamline the approval process for investment projects.
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08.11.15Bearish Bets Multiply as China Slows
Financial Times
A slowdown in China is harder for its trading partners and manufacturing competitors than it is for China itself.
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08.10.15China Shares Post Biggest One-Day Gain in a Month
Wall Street Journal
Weak economic data boosts stimulus hopes; investors signal confidence in Beijing’s support.
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05.14.15China Economy Loses More Steam in April, Further Stimulus on the Cards
Reuters
China's money supply grew at its slowest pace on record in April and investment growth sank to its lowest in 15 years.
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07.24.14China Manufacturing Gauge Rises to 18-Month High on Stimulus
Bloomberg
A Chinese manufacturing gauge rose to an 18-month high in July, bolstering the government’s chances of meeting its 2014 economic-growth target of about 7.5 percent.
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07.24.14Beijing Has Top-Secret View of China’s Employment
Wall Street Journal
China’s government knows something investors don’t—well, a lot of things actually. But that is especially true when it comes to the country’s labor market.
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06.13.14Data Show Mixed Picture of China’s Economy
Wall Street Journal
China’s economy is struggling to find equilibrium, data released Friday shows, with government stimulus measures gaining traction last month while the vital housing market continues its swoon.
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01.15.14China Dwarfs U.S. in Monetary Stimulus
New York Times
Can China slow credit growth and money supply without causing slumps in real-estate and business?
The NYRB China Archive
09.27.12
China’s Lost Decade
from New York Review of Books
It’s hard to believe, but just twenty years ago China was on the verge of abandoning the market reforms that have since propelled it to its current position as a world power. Conservatives had used the 1989 Tiananmen massacre to reverse the country’...
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09.11.12Is the 2012 China Stimulus Some Kind of Unicorn?
Financial Times
Wang Tao at UBS thinks it is not really real: Well, that is what we call a bit of make-believe. Sure, the weak August data seem to have prompted more policy actions by various government agencies and we expect better&...
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09.07.12Local Governments Bet Big on New Investment
They’re still hung over from a 4 trillion yuan spending spree initiated by the central government nearly four years ago, but local governments across China are pressing ahead anyway with huge new investment plans.In late August, for example, the...
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08.18.12
Economist Lin Yifu on State-Sustained Growth
Standing up to a wave of pessimism about China’s prospects for continuing high-level economic growth is no easy task.But economist Lin Yifu, who recently retired as a senior vice president and chief economist at the World Bank, is holding his ground...
Reports
06.03.09
China and the Global Financial Crisis: Implications for the United States
Peony Lui
Congressional Research Service
Over the past several years, China has enjoyed one of the world’s fastest growing economies and has been a major contributor to world economic growth. However, the current global financial crisis threatens to significantly slow China’s economy...