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Economics
Diverging Paths
| Jun. 7 2023
The BRICS countries no longer share similar economic trajectories, but the grouping still has a role to play.
Positive Trends
| Jun. 6 2023
CKGSB’s Business Conditions Index, reflecting confidence levels in China business, shows big improvements in China’s economic outlook.
Bulls, bears and dragons
China’s stock markets are growing in size and number, but too much state control could limit future development.
| Jun. 5 2023
Muted Optimism
CKGSB’s Business Conditions Index, reflecting confidence levels in China business, reveals some small signs of improvement.
| Nov. 8 2022
Times of Trouble: CKGSB’s Business Conditions Index
CKGSB’s Business Conditions Index, reflecting confidence levels in China business, shows the serious effects of COVID-related lockdowns.
| Jul. 26 2022
Wealth in Wellness
China’s wellness market is seeing huge growth in China, but Chinese people have different notions of what wellness means.
| Mar. 16 2021
Picking a Product
One of the secrets behind the “Factory of the World” is the mass specialization of towns.
| Nov. 19 2020
Should China Worry About the Finances of Its Rising Middle Class?
China is counting on the middle class to drive consumption levels higher, yet consumer debt keeps climbing.
| Apr. 2 2018
Daniel Kahneman Interview: Less-Than-Rational Actors
Before Daniel Kahneman, few if any psychologists influenced the field of economics. But the Nobel laureate reversed the assumption underpinning.
| Sep. 11 2017
CKGSB Business Sentiment Index 2017 Q1: Still Under Pressure
Although official data for first-quarter GDP and industrial growth exceeded expectations, the industrial economy has not yet bottomed out.
| Jul. 3 2017
How Hard Is It to Cut Chinese Government Debt?
Debt is a ticking-time bomb for the Chinese economy. In the past three years central government stopped local governments.
| Mar. 15 2017
Bargaining on China and Brexit
On the morning of June 24, 2016, China woke up to witness an unexpected drama unfolding half a world away.
| Jan. 19 2017
Arthur Kroeber: Making Sense of China’s Economy
China has achieved almost miraculous advancement in a mere 30 years, but at the same time is beset with a.
| Nov. 9 2016
Price Wars and Why Companies Just Can’t Get Along
When I was in grade school, fights would occasionally break out on the playground. The commencement of these fights was.
| Nov. 3 2015
