This paper reviews the steps that China has taken towards financial reform with a particular focus on capital account … liberalisation and internationalisation of the use of the renminbi. After a slowdown in reform momentum during the global financial …, China's debt has doubled, reaching levels that are clearly above those of most emerging markets. This increases the risks …

Drawing on global media reports, we conduct a sentiment analysis of the image of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI … positive, even if slightly less so than in the past. This is notwithstanding increases in debt levels with China, much of which … sentiment towards China's landmark project, as well as a much worse image of the initiative in countries which, until today, are …

The world economy is going through its biggest transformation in a relatively short space time. There have been many … seems little understood. In turn, there has been little preparation for, or adjustment to, this changing world, though if …. We highlight the dramatic degree of the shifts taking place in world GDP and trade and include fresh projections of what …

Though the renminbi is not yet convertible, the international monetary regime has already started to move towards a … long-term evolution of the balance of economic weight in the world economy. Such an evolution may mitigate some flaws of …