Growth without profits- how will ‘involution’ in China end?

Alicia García-Herrero and Jianwei Xu

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Abstract: China’s involution drives price wars and misallocation as even laggards slash prices, propping up zombie firms and stoking trade tensions

Date: 2026-01
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