Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction and Overview -- PART I: A SHIFT IN FOCUS: FROM EXTERNAL TO INTERNAL IMBALANCES -- 1 An End to China's Imbalances? -- 2 Investment in China: Too Much of a Good Thing? -- 3 China's Rapid Investment, Potential Output, and Output Gap -- 4 Determinants of Corporate Investment in China: Evidence from Cross-Country Firm-Level Data -- 5 Interest Rates, Targets, and Household Saving in Urban China -- PART II: IMPLICATIONS FOR CHINA'S TRADING PARTNERS -- 6 Implications for Asia from Rebalancing in China -- 7 Investment-Led Growth in China: Global Spillovers -- 8 The Spillover Effects of a Downturn in China's Real Estate Investment -- PART III: POLICY IMPLICATIONS -- 9 Chronicle of a Decline Foretold: Has China Reached the Lewis Turning Point? -- 10 How Pro-Poor and Inclusive Is China's Growth? A Cross-Country Perspective -- 11 De-Monopolization toward Long-Term Prosperity in China -- 12 Transforming China: Insights from the Japanese Experience of the 1980s -- 13 The Next Big Bang: A Road Map for Financial Reform in China -- 14 Summation -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.

China’s current account surplus has declined to around one-quarter the peak reached before the global financial crisis. While this is a major reduction in China’s external imbalance, it has not been accompanied by a decisive shift toward consumption-based growth. Instead, the compression in its external surplus has been accomplished through increasing fixed investment so that it is now an even higher share of China’s national economy. This increasing reliance on fixed investment as the main driver of China’s growth raises questions about the durability of the compression in the external surplus and the sustainability of the current growth model that has had unprecedented success in lifting about 500 million people out of poverty over the last three decades. This volume examines various aspects of the rebalancing process underway in China, highlighting policy lessons for achieving stable, sustainable, and inclusive growth.

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