Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- China's growth potential to 2050 : a supply-side forecast based on cross-country productivity convergence and its featured labor force -- Is China's current slowdown a cyclical downturn or a long-run trend : a productivity-based analysis -- Policy implications...

China's economic growth over the past three decades is unprecedented. Although this growth is commonly attributed to a high domestic savings rate among “thrifty” Chinese, savings alone cannot promote economic growth unless productivity has continuously grown for such a long period. This...

Many researchers have concluded that longer life expectancies prompt increased investment in education, as a prolonged labor supply raises the rate of return on education. Besides explaining the empirical evidence behind this conclusion (at an absolute level), there is another issue to be...

1. China's growth potential to 2050 : a supply-side forecast based on cross-country productivity convergence and its featured labor force -- 2. Is China's current slowdown a cyclical downturn or a long-run trend? : A productivity-based analysis -- 3. Policy implications.