Between the lines of China’s growth story

Barry Eichengreen, Donghyun Park, Kwanho Shin, 11 January 2013The rapid economic growth of emerging markets is the leading headline of our age. But growth is slowing. Using new research, this column asks why this might be, and how policymakers might remedy flagging economies. The answer seems to be education. Recent research suggests, for instance, that the rapid expansion of secondary and tertiary education helped Korea’s successful transition from middle- to high-income status, very much unlike Malaysia and Thailand.

China can escape the middle income trap through industrial restructuring and income distribution reform, economists said Thursday.

China can escape the middle income trap through industrial restructuring and income distribution reform, economists said Thursday.

Yesterday, various news agencies reported that Hungary opted out of the treaty while Sweden and Czech Republic remained "undecided". However, the latest spin is that Hungary did not opt out yet and the gang of 26 will forge ahead without the UK. UK the "Big Loser" Having Fallen into "French Trap"?

Fated to a big trend slowdown? Israel Malkin and Mark M. Spiegel at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco have just published an interesting Economic Letter: Many analysts have predicted that a Chinese economic slowdown is inevitable because the country is approaching the per capita income at which growth in other countries began to decelerate.

Tom Lydon submits: China ETFs could maintain a steady pace as the country’s economy will likely outshine neighboring Asian economies. According to Bloomberg’s Economic Momentum Index for Developing Asia, China will be able to maintain sustainable, rapid growth over the next five years, outpacing other Asian economies.

By StopAlerts:These charts show the relative performance of Asian emerging market country ETFs versus both the S&P 500 ETF and the MSCI emerging markets index ETF.The ETFs considered are: