China’s Slowdown: Structural or Cyclical?

Abstract

This talk engaged the assessment in the US that China’s growth has peaked and how this assessment sits in tension with China’s progress on the technological front. In this lecture, Prof. Yao Yang (Peking University) discussed how China’s slowdown is rather a consequence of the government’s deliberate adjustment on both the economic and political fronts that aims at correcting the vices accumulated in the reform era. With those corrections, he projected that China will have a healthier political and social environment.

This event was sponsored in collaboration with the Departments of Political Science, Agricultural and Applied Economics, and the Law School’s East Asian Studies Legal Center.

Yao Yang is the Director of the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University, and a UW-Madison PhD in Development Economics.