Economic theory

  A major discussion is taking place in China on the issue of its economy’s ‘supply side’. Naturally there are aspects of this which relate ...

​August 22, 2014 was the 110th anniversary of the birth of Deng Xiaoping. Numerous achievements would ensure Deng Xiaoping a major position in China's history ...

​The economic development of Singapore under is famous as one of the greatest success stories in history. Singapore has become the only Asian country to achieve ...

​ ​In 1992-98 the greatest peacetime economic collapse in a major country since at least the Industrial Revolution took place in Russia under the impact ...

The growth of Asia’s rapidly developing economies is a vital practical issue for the living standards of billions of people and a decisive test of ...

​Unfortunately some discussion in the media of how China can become a 'high income' economy fails to follow the fundamental Chinese saying ‘seek truth from ...

The dollar's domination of the international monetary system, and the 'exorbitant privilege' it gives the US, to use the phrase of leading US monetary economist Barry ...

Every 4th May is National Youth Day in China. In 2016 I was invited on that day to deliver a lecture to Chinese young economists on how developments in ...

Economics textbooks, particularly when discussing Keynes, frequently contain an elementary economic confusion - it should be made explicit this is a confusion in the textbooks ...

Inaccurate articles sometimes appear claiming China faces a "severe debt crisis." Factually these are easily refuted. Changyong Rhee, the IMF's Asia and Pacific Department director, ...