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Muted Optimism
| Nov. 8 2022
CKGSB’s Business Conditions Index, reflecting confidence levels in China business, reveals some small signs of improvement.
Times of Trouble: CKGSB’s Business Conditions Index
| Jul. 26 2022
CKGSB’s Business Conditions Index, reflecting confidence levels in China business, shows the serious effects of COVID-related lockdowns.
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
Yuan Devaluation is More Likely a Sign of Market Reforms
PBOC’s move to devaluing the RMB didn’t just follow weak exports data, but also IMF requirements for more.
| Aug. 17 2015
How China’s Economic Stimulus Can Avoid the Missteps of 2009
Early indications show that the Chinese government’s efforts to prop up the economy might be able to steer clear.
| Aug. 13 2015
China’s Debt: A Ticking Time Bomb
Does China’s debt, which refuses to stop growing, threaten to take the show off the road.
| Jun. 3 2015
