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New Singapore PM Wong will bring in a greater degree of openness

yesterday 60

Nikkei Asian Review

Donald Low

What China must learn from Japan’s decades-long debt-deflation slowdown

Policymakers can ill afford to dither or send mixed signals in their efforts to rejuvenate the economy. The immediate danger facing China today is...

sunday 40

South China Morning Post

Donald Low

Beijing's social engineers will always be obsessed with production

17.04.2024 50

Nikkei Asian Review

Donald Low

China’s drive for industrial dominance is likely to hurt developing countries – and itself

If Chinese workers were to make less and buy more, other countries could grow faster and so buy more solar panels, electric vehicles, and other...

24.03.2024 40

South China Morning Post

Donald Low

Being a 'connector' for China is no longer working for Hong Kong

City needs to rethink economic role to show it can still be relevant

03.03.2024 30

Nikkei Asian Review

Donald Low

How infrastructure borrowing can benefit Hong Kong for decades to come

Debt financing is more efficient and equitable, with cutting spending and raising taxes unpalatable given the city’s current sluggish growth.

24.02.2024 40

South China Morning Post

Donald Low

Hong Kong’s economy needs reinvention to become more than just China’s superconnector after a lost half decade

Hong Kong’s superconnector status has not enabled its economy to outperform other rival Asian hubs such as Singapore.

18.02.2024 50

South China Morning Post

Donald Low

Hong Kong needs to consider introducing sales tax to plug financing gaps, removing US dollar peg

Keeping an open mind about the goods and services tax would serve Hong Kong better than assuming its people are ‘exceptionally implacable’.

20.01.2024 50

South China Morning Post

Donald Low

Why China should allow diverse viewpoints of its economy to avoid risks of 3 biases

Without such diversity, Chinese policymakers could be blindsided by the biases of optimism, overconfidence, and omission.

19.12.2023 10

South China Morning Post

Donald Low

What Hong Kong must do to prepare for years of weaker growth in mainland China

Failure to anticipate and prepare for weaker growth would mean the city sleepwalks into stagnation, or worse, lurches from one crisis to another,...

25.11.2023 30

South China Morning Post

Donald Low

China needs a market support fund -- to rescue property developers

Risk of property market troubles hurting wider economy outweighs moral hazard concerns

26.10.2023 8

Nikkei Asian Review

Donald Low

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