Broken abacus? : a more accurate gauge of China's economy / Daniel H. Rosen, Beibei Bao ; foreword Carsten Holz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosen, Daniel H., author.

Bao, Beibei, author.

Holz, Carsten, author of introduction, etc.

Series:

CSIS Reports

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Economic conditions--2000-.

China.

China--Economic conditions--2000---Statistics.

Economic history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, [Maryland] : Center for Strategic & International Studies : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study reassesses China's nominal economic size from the bottom up. It compares China's practices with international standards and reviews the long-standing arguments about Chinese economic statistics to separate real concerns from distractions.

Contents:

Broken Abacus? ; Contents ; Foreword ; Acknowledgments ; Executive Summary ; Introduction: A 10 Trillion Question ; 1. A Framework to Measure a Country's Economy ; Why We Measure Determines How We Measure ; The System of National Accounts ; Gross Domestic Product under SNA ; Is China Concordant with the SNA Framework? ; A Still Evolving System ; 2. A Diagnosis of China's GDP Data ; Time Series Data versus Snapshot Data ; Statistical Terms with Chinese Characteristics ; Institutional Arrangements and Constraints ; 3. A Better Abacus? ; Choice of Measurement Year and Other Basics

Secondary Sector Tertiary Sector ; Primary Sector ; Research and Development Expenditures ; Appendixes ; 4. Conclusions and Implications ; Our Headline Results and China's Official Revision ; Through Domestic Economic Eyes: Revisiting Debates ; Through China's Political Eyes: GDP in a Broader Context ; Through Foreign Eyes: A Resized Rival ; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 26, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4422-4085-7