Blog post
05 May 2015
Additional monetary easing for China?
As many other central banks in the Asian region, the People Bank of China (PBoC) has been on an easing mode for a few months now and more seems to be
Blog post
05 May 2015
As many other central banks in the Asian region, the People Bank of China (PBoC) has been on an easing mode for a few months now and more seems to be
Opinion piece
07 April 2015
In late 2001, I first used the phrase BRIC to discuss the likely rise of Brazil, Russia, India and China as growing shares of the world economy and ou
Blog post
17 March 2015
It is probably too early to say with certainty that India will soon take its place as the world's third largest economy, behind China and the United S
Opinion piece
16 March 2015
Blog post
09 January 2015
Back at the start of the decade, I made certain assumptions about how the so-called BRIC economies -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- would perform
Opinion piece
04 December 2014
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
Event
03 December 2014
Global Economics and Governance
Blog post
29 October 2014
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
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
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
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
Part I discusses three institutional factors favouring a strategy of greater currency flexibility ahead of fuller domestic interest rate liberalisatio
Opinion piece
16 October 2014
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
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 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
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