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01 / evaluation
“It undermines the credibility of the policy management of the government. I think that the bigger worry is foreign capital, ahead of foreign migrants.”
02 / evaluation
“It is an overwhelmingly investment-driven economy. I think that’s one of the biggest misunderstandings of Chinese economy.”
03 / evaluation
“Part of it is the socialization of the norm, because of the one-child policy that they instituted in the late 1970s, and they only lifted that policy in 2015.”
04 / evaluation
“The reason for that is, I think — although it’s a little bit difficult to generalize because we don’t really have many data points — one reason is the charisma power of individual leaders, Mao and Xiaoping.”
05 / evaluation
“The nature of the Chinese economy and Japanese economy is very land intensive, so the urban costs of living are very high because of the very high housing costs.”
06 / evaluation
“The bigger issue, I believe, is the fact that the household income share of the GDP is very low.”
07 / evaluation
“I think there’s some recent research that challenges that view, using better data, more fine-grained data that shows that per capita GDP by the 17th century in China was much lower than per capita GDP in Europe, even among the most developed regions of China.”