Last week, four China specialists published a paper arguing that China’s growth since 2008 has been about 1.7 percentage points lower annually than reported. In other words, the economic slowdown has been a lot steeper than Beijing reported. The economists—Chang-Tai Hsieh of the University of Chicago and Zheng Song, Wei Chen and Xilu Chen of Chinese University of Hong Kong—did two main tests of the official data.
In The News•Mar 12, 2019