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China’s Slowdown: Harbinger Of A New Business Model?
By Nile Bowie At the opening of China’s annual parliamentary meeting last week, Premier Li Keqiang laid out Beijing’s policy agenda for the year, speaking frankly about the formidable challenges to growth facing the Chinese economy. Li referred to a myriad of systemic, institutional, and structural problems as ‘tigers in the road,’ responsible for holding up … Continue reading
Shanghai Free Trade Zone Experiment: A Major Step Towards Financial Liberalisation
By Daqing Yao and John Whalley Since September 2013 China has been operating a new form of free trade zone (FTZ) based in a small area of Shanghai, called the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (SPFTZ). Only 28 square kilometres in area, the SPFTZ is a concrete first step to China’s new development model, the … Continue reading
