China’s Path to Sustainable and Balanced Growth

By Dirk V Muir, Natalija Novta, Anne Oeking

November 15, 2024

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Dirk V Muir, Natalija Novta, and Anne Oeking. "China’s Path to Sustainable and Balanced Growth", IMF Working Papers 2024, 238 (2024), accessed December 11, 2024, https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400293467.001

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Summary

After decades of high growth, the Chinese economy is facing headwinds from slowing productivity growth and a declining workforce that are projected to lower potential growth substantially in the longer term. We project China’s potential growth over the medium to long term, showing that potential growth could slow to around 3.8 percent on average between 2025-30 and to around 2.8 percent on average over 2031-40 in the absence of major reforms. We present a reform scenario with structural reforms to lift productivity growth and rebalancing China’s growth towards more consumption, that would help China transition to “high-quality”—balanced, inclusive, and green—growth. We use production function and general equilibrium modelling approaches to show that potential growth could remain at around 4.3 percent between 2025-40 under the reform scenario.

Subject: Consumption, Global value chains, Globalization, National accounts, Production, Productivity, Total factor productivity

Keywords: Consumption, Demographic trends, General equilibrium modeling approach, Global, Global value chains, Investment-led growth, Potential growth, Productivity, Rebalancing, Reform scenario, Reforming China's economy, SOE productivity gap, Southeast Asia, Structural reforms, Tertiary sector, Total factor productivity

Publication Details

Pages:

32
Volume:

2024
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400293467.001
Issue:

238
Series:

Working Paper No. 2024/238
Stock No:

WPIEA2024238
ISBN:

9798400293467
ISSN:

1018-5941

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