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Local governments in China rely on a dangerous dependency

China’s state-driven Keynesian model of economic growth has meant the state is both the biggest debtor and the biggest creditor in China’s infrastructure projects. While the official government debt-to-GDP ratio is 68%, if all prefectural city investment enterprise debts were added into the mix, the ratio would increase to 90% to 95%, a much higher […]

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