labor shortage economy. Crossing this threshold will have far-reaching implications for both China and the rest of the world …China is on the eve of a demographic shift that will have profound consequences on its economic and social landscape …, along with anecdotes of rapidly rising migrant wages and episodic labor shortages, has raised questions about whether China …

China’s economy has been moderate in 2012, with a GDP growth of about 8 percent. Macroeconomic policies helped to … approved projects. Directors encouraged the authorities to accelerate the transformation of China’s economy as conceived under …

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 …

Over the past decade, China’s growth model has become more reliant on investment and its footprint in global imports … has widened substantially. Several economies within China’s supply chain are increasingly exposed to its investment …-led growth and face growing risks from a deceleration in investment in China. This note quantifies potential global spillovers …

Real estate investment accounts for a quarter of total fixed asset investment (FAI) in China. The real estate sector … process relies primarily on collateral, like in China. As a result, the impact on economic activity of a collapse in real … estate investment in China—though a low-probability event—would be sizable, with large spillovers to a number of China …

This paper investigates the asymmetries in trade spillovers from sector-specific technology shocks in China to selected …

considered. As China is a clear example of this pattern, it has been selected to promote understanding of the process …

in China during the last decade, drawing upon previous analytical work and also employing the “Granger causality” test …

, Czechoslovakia, and China. Significant efforts have been made, or are under consideration, in all countries to develop a more …

With China''s share in global trade increasing rapidly, some argued in 2002-03 that China was exporting deflation to … other countries as it was dumping cheap goods in mature markets. Later, others argued that China was sucking in commodities … the extent of the link between inflation rates between China and the United States and Japan. It finds only limited …