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12.03.15Why China's Millennials Are Happy to Own Nothing
Bloomberg
Two decades ago, Tyler Xiong and his parents had to live in a commune guided by the strict socialist teachings of Mao Zedong.
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11.04.15China Underreporting Coal Consumption by Up to 17%, Data Suggests
Guardian
Revelation may mean China has emitted close to a billion additional tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year.
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10.05.15China’s Middle-Class Dreams in Peril
Wall Street Journal
Smaller cities on the cusp of China’s transformation toward consumer-driven growth struggle to overcome ill effects of previous economic model.
Viewpoint
04.23.15
China’s Leftists Are Embracing Confucius. Why?
When Jennifer Pan and Yiqing Xu posted their new paper, “China’s Ideological Spectrum,” last week, it marked the first time that anyone has provided large-scale empirical data on the ideological shifts and trends within the Chinese population. China...
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06.11.14China Media: White Paper on Hong Kong
BBC
Media in China give full support to an official document reaffirming total control over Hong Kong, while papers in the special administrative region express pessimism over the future.
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02.25.14Nobel Winner’s Frank Advice to China’s Leadership
New York Times
Nobel Prize-winning economist A. Michael Spence argues that the Chinese must move beyond low-wage exports and “generate a fair amount of demand domestically, or they’ll fail.”
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01.13.14Is China's Economy Headed for a Crash?
Week
A growth model dependant on financial repression of the household sector has run out of steam.
Reports
11.27.12
Is China Over-Investing and Does it Matter?
Luo Xiaoyuan
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Now close to 50 percent of GDP, this paper assesses the appropriateness of China’s current investment levels. It finds that China’s capital-to-output ratio is within the range of other emerging markets, but its economic growth rates stand out,...
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04.01.08
A Real Model of Transitional Growth and Competitiveness in China
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
The authors present a stylized real model of the Chinese economy with the objective of explaining two features: (1) domestic production is highly competitive in the sense that an accumulation of capital that raises the marginal product of labor...