samedi 27 février 2016

Chinese economic growth is slowing down ... is it correct ?

Do not call data from China to the optimism, the Chinese economy is the slowest pace of growth has scored in almost three years, and although the growth rate of 7.6% (in the second half of this year) is a very healthy global standards due to the experienced Western economies of deterioration and stagnation, but it is without doubt a low Chinese standards, which in turn cause for additional concern of the state of the global economy, but the reasons for this slowdown and how to confront it?
In fact, that this slowdown is not surprising if we consider the extent of the Chinese economy's dependence on external demand and, therefore, expected that China affected by lower demand in overseas markets, particularly from the United States and Europe, the biggest consumers of Chinese exports, in addition to slowing growth investment, especially in real estate and related sectors.
 
Many of the slowdown attributed to patrol factors (Cyclical Factors) linked to global economic developments and their reflection on the inside, and called to take stimulus measures and increased government spending, and indeed, the government has taken a series of measures to stimulate economic growth, including reducing the interest rate and the size of the required reserves of banks, but the problem, in the view beyond cyclical factors to structural factors goes on the economic model itself.
 
There is no doubt that the cyclical factors bear the brunt of China's slowdown, but in light of the current model, and after three decades of Alnmno close to 10 it is very difficult that the economy maintains this pace, even without a global crisis, and what did the crisis in the fact that it showed the need the face of structural factors are salt and fast along with the financial and economic factors emerging policies of supporting the government of urbanization and industrialization is no longer sufficient to achieve growth rates higher than the 8% for a decade as had been thought, even if the government has taken further stimulus measures and increased public spending.
 
If we compare the reasons for the current slowdown to those that were behind the slowdown that hit the Chinese economy during the crisis of 2008-2009, we find that the structural factors has deepened and become more acute than it was three years ago, and is likely to continue to track this over time.
It is true that stimulus measures from the expansionary fiscal and monetary policies that will support economic growth in the short term, but China will not protect against the fluctuations of global tremors, and will not constitute an engine for growth in the long term, and, therefore, China's success to achieve sustainable growth in the long term depends on face the core of the Chinese economic model dimming on external demand and public investment imbalances, and through the adoption of a substantial economic and financial reforms.
 
These reforms include the existing tax system, which overwhelms families and businesses, and allow private investment sector in sectors controlled by states to increase their productivity and effectiveness, and to expand the social safety net to include all counties (cities and the countryside), which allows citizens to free up some of their savings in banks and thus increase spending private, freeing up the labor market to give up what is known through the system flowing families who Asnev workforce between rural and urban, along with of course the development of financial markets and to rely more on the bond market on direct bank loans account.
 
To achieve a sustainable and stable growth is today considered the most prominent challenges for China and most urgent, and does not face this challenge in the long
Term stimulus measures progress and an increase in public spending, while necessary at the moment, but the development of the economic model towards strengthening domestic demand on the external account and support private investment on government account.