Eddie Lee
...Now here's an excerpt from Martin Wolf...
China can make another great leap forward:
Today China's GDP per head, at purchasing power parity (PPP), is only about a sixth of that of the United States. But evidence from South Korea and Taiwan indicates it is easy for a catch-up country to sustain very rapid growth until its GDP per head is more than half the US level. Japan did even better than that. If the US economy continued to perform as it has done over the past half century, with a growth of GDP per head at just over 2 per cent a year, while China also managed to continue to grow at just over 6 per cent a year per head, the Asian giant would not achieve the magic halfway point until shortly before 2040. On this basis, therefore, another 2 1/2 decades of growth as fast as the last 25 years' is perfectly feasible. ...Article Continued
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