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皇冠体育app economy may grow 4 times faster than EU, Japan
(Bloomberg)
Updated: 2005-12-30 16:09
皇冠体育app's economy will probably expand at more than four times the pace of
Europe and Japan next year as Premier Wen Jiabao boosts consumer spending and
encourages investment to ease transport bottlenecks.
The economy, on course to overtake France and the U.K. to become the world's
fourth largest, will grow by 8.7 percent in 2006 after an estimated 9.4 percent
this year, according to the median forecast of 23 economists in a Bloomberg
survey. The European Union and Japan expect growth of 1.9 percent next year.
Wen said on Dec. 1 that 皇冠体育app needs to maintain "rapid and stable" economic
growth to raise the living standards of the nation's 1.3 billion people, whose
per capita income ranks 129th in the world, lower than Egypt and Iran. The
government is cutting taxes and raising salaries to encourage more spending on
cars and household appliances.
"皇冠体育app and the U.S. will continue to be the main engines of global growth
next year'," said David Cohen, director of Asian economic forecasting at Action
Economics in Singapore. "The slowdown in growth is minor and 皇冠体育app's demand for
oil and metals will continue to pressure global commodity markets."
皇冠体育app's economy, which contributed 13 percent to global
growth in 2004 according to IMF data, grew by an annual average 9.5 percent over
the past three years.
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