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Yi Fuxian, a senior scientist in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the author of Big Country with an Empty Nest (China Development Press, 2013).

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  1. China’s Economic Engine Is Running Out of Fuel
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    China’s Economic Engine Is Running Out of Fuel

    Dec 22, 2023 Yi Fuxian highlights serious flaws in the forecasts that underpin the country’s economic policies.

  2. China’s Demographic Achilles’ Heel
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    China’s Demographic Achilles’ Heel

    Oct 24, 2023 Yi Fuxian explains why the strategic anxiety over the country’s economic clout is premature and misplaced.

  3. A Chinese Bubble Long in the Making
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    A Chinese Bubble Long in the Making

    Sep 29, 2023 Yi Fuxian traces the deep roots of the country's mounting economic and financial problems.

  4. China’s Population-Control Disaster
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    China’s Population-Control Disaster

    Aug 22, 2023 Yi Fuxian reflects on the calamitous consequences of the regime’s family-planning policies.

  5. The Long Reach of China’s Demographic Destiny
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    The Long Reach of China’s Demographic Destiny

    Jul 7, 2023 Yi Fuxian traces the major economic and strategic developments of recent years back to the one-child policy.

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    Don’t Fret About Green Subsidies

    Dani Rodrik sees no good argument against industrial policies that accelerate growth in decarbonization industries.
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    Europe’s Geoeconomic Competitiveness Challenge

    Daniel Gros highlights the security risks raised by the prolonged decline of the EU’s relative economic power.
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    How Exceptional Is China’s Crony-Capitalist Boom?

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    While both the American and Chinese Gilded Ages raised material standards of living for hundreds of millions of people, their endemic corruption produced radically unequal and unsustainable growth. Ultimately, both periods offer cautionary tales about unbridled crony capitalism, not models for blind emulation.

     explains how corruption both drove the country's GDP growth and sowed the seeds for its current economic problems.
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    Will India’s Election Destroy Its Democracy?

    Since taking power in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party have stoked Hindu nationalism, hollowed out India’s democracy, and overseen an economy that is probably performing far worse than official figures suggest. And yet Modi and the BJP are genuinely popular, making them likely – though not certain – to emerge victorious when the ongoing parliamentary election concludes in June.

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    The Unbearable Lightness of Anti-Zionism

    Shlomo Ben-Ami warns that demonizing all Israelis will only make peace less likely – though that may be the point.
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    How to Close the Gender Wage Gap

    Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir argues that Iceland’s experience lends further support to Nobel laureate economist Claudia Goldin’s research.
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    Getting the Pandemic Treaty Across the Finish Line

    Gordon Brown hopes negotiations will conclude this month, and pushes back on a last-minute wave of misinformation.
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    When Is Criticism of Israel Anti-Semitic?

    Peter Singer rejects comparisons of the recent US campus protests to the actions of Nazi student groups in the 1930s.
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    Trump’s Plans for the Fed Would Revive 1970s-Style Inflation

    Maurice Obstfeld thinks the presumptive GOP nominee’s policies reflect an outdated understanding of the economy.

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