China forecast to overtake US by 2016

FINANCIAL TIMES:   China is on track for a fourth consecutive decade of rapid growth and will overtake the US as the world’s biggest economy in 2016 after accounting for price differences, according to a new report by the OECD.

Having slouched to 7.8 per cent growth last year, its slowest in more than a decade, China’s economy will rebound to 8.5 per cent growth this year and 8.9 per cent next, the OECD said.

It forecast that China would average 8 per cent growth in per capita terms during the current decade, provided Beijing can implement a series of economic, financial and regulatory reforms, many of which are already in train…  (more)

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