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Tsinghua's Bai Chong-En et al. suggest compulsary pre-school (3-6 yrs old) instead of high school as the direction for future social welfare expansion. Another in-kind transfer advise to replace infrastructure investment as a new engine for income growth. opinion.caixin.com/2024-03-15/102…

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傅道格 Doug Fuller If we use the same Penn World Table adjustment method across countries, China's labor compensation share would be higher than median(0.5 percentile) consistently. Although the agricultural adjustment probably have boosted China's share too much.

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That's because rebalancing requires a shift in the GDP share retained by ordinary households, and part of the shift may come from the rich and very rich. As China rebalances, many of the old rules (e.g. luxury always outperforms non-luxury) will probably reverse.