The People’s Republic of China and Global Imbalances from a View of Sectorial Reforms

Hiro Ito and Ulrich Volz

Macroeconomics Working Papers from East Asian Bureau of Economic Research

Abstract: This paper examines the impact of sectorial reforms on current account imbalances, with a special focus on the People’s Republic of China (PRC). In particular, we investigate to what extent reforms pertaining to the financial sector, social protection, and healthcare may contribute to a rebalancing of the PRC’s persistent current account imbalances. Our forecasting results suggest that reforming the financial sector would be a significant contributor to the country’s rebalancing with an effect much larger than that of capital account liberalization. Strengthened provisions of social protection and publicly-funded healthcare are also found to contribute to a rebalancing of the PRC economy.

Keywords: the PRC and Global Imbalances; financial sector; current account imbalances; Capital account liberalization; social protection; rebalancing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F32 F41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-11
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