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China will confront the dreaded middle-income trap this decade

Lofty statements and mantras about reforms and attracting foreign investment mean little. What matters are the actual policies that China pursues. Whether it can regain its past growth trajectory is unclear.

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Francis Hutchinson | East Asia Forum

Francis E Hutchinson is a Senior Fellow and Co-ordinator of the Regional Economic Studies and Malaysia Studies Programmes at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. He holds a PhD in Public Policy and Administration from the Australian National University and degrees from the Universities of Cambridge and Sussex. Francis’ research interests include governance, state-business relations, federalism, decentralization, and industrialization in Southeast Asia. He has written or edited five books including Asia and the Middle Income Trap (Routledge 2016); is the Managing Editor of the Journal of Southeast Asian Economies; and has published on Southeast Asian economic and political issues in Asian Affairs, Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Asian Journal of Political Science, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, and Southeast Asian Affairs. Prior to joining the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Francis carried out applied research for agencies such as the World Bank, UNDP, UNICEF, UNESCO, AusAID, as well as political risk consultancy firms such as Oxford Analytica.

private capex in india: Private capital expenditure to pick up in coming years: MPC member Jayanth R Varma

RBI Monetary Policy Committee member Jayanth R Varma predicts that capacity utilization is increasing and private capital expenditure will pick up in the coming years. He believes that the government has borne the burden of investment, while private capital expenditure has been muted. Varma also believes that large public sector infrastructure investments have the potential to crowd-in private sector investments.

China's economy had a miserable year. 2024 might be even worse

The Chinese economy was expected to recover quickly in 2023 and resume its role as the undisputed engine of global growth. Instead, it stalled to the point where it’s being called a “drag” on world output by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), among others.

China's economy had a miserable year. 2024 might be even worse

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Niti Aayog puts finishing touches to draft Vison 2047

The Aayog, which has harmonised and combined the recommendations of the 10 secretary-level sectoral groups, will hold final presentation to these group in the first week of November followed by meeting with thought leaders including industrialists and academia in the third week of November as it plans to finalise the draft document by December 2023.