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...Second, the revaluation is a big plus for the Chinese economy. China has already taken actions to cool off its overheated property sector, and it does not want to risk overkill by crushing exports. Collectively, fixed investments and exports account for 80% of China's GDP, and they are both still growing at close to a 30% annual rate. China's boom would quickly turn into a bust if both slowed sharply. A small upward adjustment of the currency should reinforce the modest slowing of Chinese exports that was already in the cards. China's leadership will most likely adopt...
...from India to Mexico, which in recent years have struggled to compete with China's low costs and high efficiency, could start to claim new business, says Fung. Merrill Lynch estimates that a 10% increase in the value of the yuan would shave 1.8 percentage points off China's GDP growth rate. Meanwhile, foreign investment in the Chinese economy could start to flag, says Takahide Kiuchi, a senior economist at Nomura Securities in Tokyo...
...landslide victory in February's parliamentary election. But in the past few weeks, Thaksin has started to look more vulnerable. Violence by Muslim separatists in the country's south has continued to escalate, and the economy has been bruised by December's tsunami as well as surging oil prices: GDP is now expected to grow 4.5% in 2005?down sharply from last year's 6.1%. A corruption scandal involving his Transport Minister has also hurt. A poll by Assumption University released last week reported that Thaksin's popularity has slumped...
Amount the White House now projects the deficit will have shrunk to by 2009, which would be just 1.1% of the GDP...
...realized in the form of social and economic chaos." A recent study by Dai-ichi Life Research Institute estimated that the limited spending power of NEETs (another Japanese variation of work-force dropouts, NEET stands for "Not in Education, Employment or Training") knocked 0.15 percentage points off Japan's GDP...