China’s broken growth model

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By Gavin van Marle

04/10/2012

China-specialist investment analyst looks at the options the country has to keep its growth rates from falling, but there are few remaining and they are running out, fast. To rebalance its economy, domestic consumption must outgrow industrial and manufacturing investment, which it is, but not at a rate to stop the overall economy slackening. The only tool left to the government is stimulus, which in China means investment, which will actually reverse the rebalancing process.

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