Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Is China’s economy in trouble?
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Is China’s economy in trouble?
For decades China's economic growth has been the envy of the western world. But current signs suggest all is not well.
Regulations brought in by government to curb businesses reliance on debt have badly hit the its second largest real estate developer, Evergrande and manufacturing output has been hit by power shortages.
So is China’s economy in trouble?
Experts:
Sara Hsu, visiting scholar at Fudan University in Shanghai
Michael Pettis, Finance Professor at Peking University and a Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment
Iris Pang, ING's Chief Economist for Greater China
Travis Lundy, independent research analyst in Hong Kong
Presenter: Charmaine Cozier
Researcher: Chris Blake
Production Co-ordinator: Jacqui Johnson
Sound Engineer: Neil Churchill
Producer: Ben Carter
Editor: Richard Vadon
(Image: People commute in front of the under-construction Guangzhou Evergrande football stadium in Guangzhou, China's southern Guangdong province on September 17, 2021. (Photo by NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images)
View all episodes
By BBC World Service
4.6
695695 ratings
For decades China's economic growth has been the envy of the western world. But current signs suggest all is not well.
Regulations brought in by government to curb businesses reliance on debt have badly hit the its second largest real estate developer, Evergrande and manufacturing output has been hit by power shortages.
So is China’s economy in trouble?
Experts:
Sara Hsu, visiting scholar at Fudan University in Shanghai
Michael Pettis, Finance Professor at Peking University and a Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment
Iris Pang, ING's Chief Economist for Greater China
Travis Lundy, independent research analyst in Hong Kong
Presenter: Charmaine Cozier
Researcher: Chris Blake
Production Co-ordinator: Jacqui Johnson
Sound Engineer: Neil Churchill
Producer: Ben Carter
Editor: Richard Vadon
(Image: People commute in front of the under-construction Guangzhou Evergrande football stadium in Guangzhou, China's southern Guangdong province on September 17, 2021. (Photo by NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images)
More shows like The Inquiry
View all
Global News Podcast
7,639 Listeners
From Our Own Correspondent
375 Listeners
Business Daily
519 Listeners
More or Less
876 Listeners
Newshour
1,046 Listeners
World Business Report
293 Listeners
In Our Time
5,520 Listeners
The Documentary Podcast
1,799 Listeners
Witness History
964 Listeners
The History Hour
584 Listeners
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
2,110 Listeners
The Interview
358 Listeners
Discovery
965 Listeners
BBC Inside Science
407 Listeners
Science Weekly
410 Listeners
The Life Scientific
217 Listeners
The Audio Long Read
849 Listeners
Unexpected Elements
366 Listeners
The Briefing Room
58 Listeners
CrowdScience
476 Listeners
People Fixing The World
238 Listeners
Evil Genius with Russell Kane
360 Listeners
Have You Heard George's Podcast?
233 Listeners
Elis James and John Robins
307 Listeners
You're Dead to Me
3,177 Listeners
Sport's Strangest Crimes
65 Listeners
Uncanny
814 Listeners
Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley
555 Listeners
Believe in Magic
643 Listeners
The Global Story
386 Listeners
Miss Me?
239 Listeners
The History Podcast
56 Listeners
Rory Stewart: The Long History of...
75 Listeners
The History Bureau
74 Listeners