Year: 2014
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The last decades China was highly relaying on export led growth, which drove the economy to enormous GDP growth rates. Due to the financial crisis in 2007/2008, its trade partners were loosing the ability to import as much as before and China’s GDP growth started to decline. The reason for that is the neglect of the domestic consumption rate of private households. This paper examines the correlation between a higher reliance on household consumption and economic growth. Furthermore, it is analysing quantitatively how the rebalancing can be achieved. The two different models were testing the important changes of the wage level, the education system and the financial system and it’s correlation with the household consumption rate. The results show that it is highly recommended to rebalance the economy to a higher reliance on the household consumption rate. The regressions show that a further focus on exports would lead to a decline of GDP growth. With a change to a focus on capital intense production, a better education system will develop, which will eventually lead to higher wages and with it the increase in the household consumption rate. Keywords:
Author: Michael Waldschmidt
Language: English
Topic: Economic Theory and Policy
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1563179404