As of now China is going through a tough economic phase and a way out of this problem is initiation of some comprehensive China economic policy that does away with weaknesses in national economic system.
Hu Jintao, president of China believes that a Strong Chinese economic policy would be necessary in order to help China adjust to aftereffects of global financial bust. According to him some useful economic policy of China is required in order to buck present global financial trend.
Hu has reiterated that prospects of economic growth of China were being hampered as a result of world economic meltdown. If China’s economy were to progress it would take a decent economic policy in China.
At present, a very important part of economic policy at China is increasing of demand among consumers within China’s domestic market. China is also looking to procure some sort of stability in levels of external demand so that some sort of economic balance could be achieved.
In last couple of decades this is lowest rate of economic growth for China. In final quarter of 2008 rate of economic growth of China was 6.8 percent. In last ten years rate of growth has normally been in excess of 10 percent. As per Hu Jintao a concrete China economic policy would be necessary in order to improve this situation.
Export and manufacturing sectors are at center of latest China economic policy as they have been hit hardest by global financial downturn. At least 20 million people have lost their jobs. Chinese government is worried about possibilities of social upheavals.
As part of China economic policy, a spending package worth $580 billion had been announced in November 2008. This money would be spent till end of fiscal 2010 in order to deal with ongoing world monetary crisis.
However, Wen Jiabao, prime minister of China has opined that even better China economic policies would be necessary in order to tide over present scenario of economic problems. Some new moves are being considered such as increase in investment by government, widening scope of social security benefits for common Chinese people and fresh schemes of industrial revival in China.
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Nouriel Roubini, a.k.a. “Doctor Doom”, is chairman of Roubini Global Economics and professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Roubini has been consistently cited as one of the world’s top global thinkers. This year, he was voted as the most influential economist in the world by Forbes magazine.
Non-Executive Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia. Lecturer at Yale University's School of Management and Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Author of "The Next Asia".
Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. IMF’s Chief Economist from September 2003 to January 2007. Inaugural recipient of the Fischer Black Prize.
Professor of Economics & Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals. Founder & co-President of the Millennium Promise Alliance.