Ashoka Mody
explains the roots of the lack of accountability in India, highlights shortcomings in human capital and gender equality, casts doubt on the country’s ability to assume a Chinese-style role in manufacturing, and more.
While China and the US take advantage of scale to pursue large-scale investment in critical sectors, the EU struggles to follow suit, owing to its decentralized fiscal structures and rules limiting government subsidies to industry. A new EU-level investment program is urgently needed.
advocates a federal investment program, funded by EU sovereign-debt issuance and administered centrally.
纽约—2021年初,25家全球主要银行和其他专业预测机构一致认为,今年中国GDP增长率将达到8.3%。相比之下,中国政府自己设定的增长目标是6%左右,低于25家预测机构中24家给出的增长率预测值。中国政府是否关注了一些外界所忽略的信息?就算可能会影响到经济增长,政府是否也要做一些他认为更值得的事情?
最近,由于中国经济增长放缓,国际银行下调了对中国的全年经济增长预测。第三季度的同比增长仅为4.9%,低于第一季度和第二季度的18.3%和7.9%。第一季度呈现高同比增长主要是因为2020年第一季度疫情引起的封锁出现了负增长。第三季度的低增长率让人们对第四季度和明年的经济增长前景感到担忧。
部分增长的减少源于中国对新冠病毒的零容忍政策,该政策要求比大多数其他国家更频繁地进行封锁。今年夏天,一连串的地方性新冠疫情引发了中国多个城市的封锁或限制旅行。这不仅减少了制造业的产出,而且在旅游业兴旺起来的时候,严重影响了许多服务业的工作岗位。
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