Comment
04 December 2014
Emerging markets mock the pessimists
Remember this time last year, when it was fashionable to predict that 2014 would be a pretty bad year for emerging markets? Didn't really happen
Emerging economies
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Event
03 December 2014
Internationalisation of the Renminbi: Developments in Offshore Business
Global Economics and Governance
Blog post
29 October 2014
The world is ready for a global economic governance reform, are world leaders?
A survey of G20 practitioners reveals how, notwithstanding the post-crisis loss of momentum, the G20 is still considered a useful forum of discussions
Blog post
16 October 2014
Blogs review: The China slowdown effect
What’s at stake: As China moves from being an economy with surplus labor to an economy with labor shortages, the implications for the global econ
Blog post
16 October 2014
How tight is China’s monetary policy?
There have been definite signs of monetary loosening in China in recent weeks. Nevertheless, for almost a year, the debate continues to rage over whet
Blog post
16 October 2014
How loose is China’s monetary policy?
On the contrary, among the major central banks, the PBC appears to have tightened the most since the global financial crisis, on the basis of both ex-
Blog post
16 October 2014
China's financial liberalisation: interest rate deregulation or currency flexibility first?
Part I discusses three institutional factors favouring a strategy of greater currency flexibility ahead of fuller domestic interest rate liberalisatio
Comment
16 October 2014
China gingerly taking the capital account liberalisation path
Since China is the number one trading nation, the second largest economy and a large net creditor, the world has a huge stake in how China manages its
Working paper
08 October 2014
Developing an underlying inflation gauge for China
This paper develops a new underlying inflation gauge (UIG) for China which differentiates between trend and noise, is available daily and uses a broad
Blog post
08 October 2014
A compelling case for Chinese monetary easing
A successful Chinese economy needs both structural reforms on the supply side to enhance potential growth, and a nimble monetary policy to fully explo
Blog post
30 September 2014
Tweaking China’s loan-deposit ratio rule
In the wake of the latest easing of Chinese monetary policy, the CBRC, China’s banking regulator, has recently modified a few details of how it c
Blog post
05 August 2014
Are financial conditions in China too lax or too stringent?
The pronounced slowdown in China’s GDP growth in recent years has raised the important question of what might be its principal causes.
Blog post
26 July 2014
Is the BRICS rise over?
The BRICS name is certainly here to stay, and in terms of global governance, their influence is likely to rise as a group because of this development.
Blog post
15 July 2014
China's Ambassador to the EU on the role of emerging markets in WTO
Remarks delivered by Her Excellency the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to the European Union, Yang Yanyi, at workshop 'The fut
Blog post
23 May 2014
A ten-step program to tap India's great potential
It's all about productivity. India scores poorly on indexes of economic variables that are critical for economic efficiency -- worse than Brazil, Chin
Blog post
19 May 2014
China's financial liberalisation: interest rate deregulation or currency flexibility first?
In this follow-up, I argue that on top of these structural and institutional factors, there are also three short-term cyclical considerations in favou