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Comments on “2010 Chinese Household
Consumption Potential and its Pulling
Effect Evaluation”
by Xiuli Liu, Shouyang Wang & Xikang Chen
Ulrich Volz, German Development Institute
23 July 2010, CESifo Venice Summer Institute
© 2010 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Comments
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Paper investigates the potential for growth of Chinese domestic
consumption:
• How will the household consumption value and its potential of each
sector in Chinese economic system develop?
• How great is the potential to replace export dependency by increasing
domestic consumption?
• How great is the pulling effect of household consumption on GDP?

Important topic in the context of discussion about global imbalances
• Looking in detail at the patterns of consumption across different sectors
and rural and urban households useful exercise
© 2010 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Comments

Approach
• Model simulation of household consumption potential and their capacity
to replace external demand
• Estimates for 2010
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Paper should be more ambitious!
• Maybe use model to analyse longer-term structural changes
• Spend more time on discussing the implications of your findings
© 2010 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)