China : Does Government Health and Education Spending Boost Consumption? /

Consumption in China is unusually low and has continued to decline as a share of GDP over the past decade. A key policy question is how to reverse this trend, and rebalance growth away from reliance on exports and investment and toward consumption. This paper investigates whether the sizable increas...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barnett, Steven
Other Authors: Brooks, Ray
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2010.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2010/016
Online Access:Full text available on IMF

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