Over the past decade, the People's Republic of China has been pursuing an average annual growth of 9%. It has now become the 4th largest world power after the United States, Japan and Germany, but ahead of France and the United Kingdom.
However, China currently accounts for only 5% of global GDP.
The rise of China has several implications for the global economy. Indeed, China aims to grow as strong and for as long as possible. However, this legitimate goal of China and its applications can sometimes differ from the global goals of financial and economic stability.
We have divided our analysis into three parts to identify the implications of Chinese growth over the rest of the world:
- The first part deals with the volume effect of China, especially in terms of gains of market share in exports and the spillover effects on world growth-related imports.
- The second part focuses on the price effect of China on the world especially in terms of higher commodity prices and deflation in the countries, which leads to higher wages.
- The third part highlights the financial impact of China, particularly through its exchange rate policy, and its effects in terms of global liquidity and reserve accumulation.
Finally, to conclude, we will try to determine the advantages and disadvantages of such growth, and to determine the ability of the global economy to absorb global growth.
The opening of China is a mixed blessing, since the company is a producer of primary importance, and therefore an extremely powerful competitor. At the same time it is also a vast market in which the world can sell its surplus production.
In this document we focus on the implications of Chinese growth on the global economy in terms of quantity and volume.
Specifically we will analyze:
-Gains of market share in world trade vis-à-vis developed countries and other emerging countries which is negative for the rest of the world, and relate to issues of competitive advantage, FDI and relocation of global industrial production;
- Strong growth in imports from China, which is favorable for many countries which are trying to specialize.
Labor, particularly unskilled labor, is very cheap in China. For example, the average salary in dollars in the manufacturing sector is fifty times lower than in France, and the differences are still higher for the relatively unskilled laborers. By contrast, China is characterized by very low productivity.
Taking into consideration the wage cost per unit (CSU) to report the cost of labor in worker productivity as an indicator of competitiveness, we can consider that the competitiveness of a country increases when productivity is increasing, the labor costs in local currency decrease, and / or the local currency depreciates against the dollar.
Compared with France, the Chinese CSU is 3 times lower. Such differences reflect the fact that wage differentials between employees are very high. The French and Chinese employees are only slightly offset by the differences in productivity. One is forced to say that China is more competitive than France in the sectors requiring intensive labor, largely due to its low cost labor.
Tags: Chinese economic growth, cheap labor in China, world growth-related imports
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[...] In this document we focus on the implications of Chinese growth on the global economy in terms of quantity and volume. Specifically we will analyze: -Gains of market share in world trade vis-à-vis developed countries and other emerging countries which is negative for the rest of the world, and relate to issues of competitive advantage, FDI and relocation of global industrial production; - Strong growth in imports from China, which is favorable for many countries which are trying to specialize. [...]
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