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Record Nr.

UNINA9910972050503321

Autore

Barnett Steven

Titolo

China : : Does Government Health and Education Spending Boost Consumption? / / Steven Barnett, R. Brooks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2010

ISBN

9786612845253

9781462318421

1462318428

9781452751061

1452751064

9781282845251

128284525X

9781451962130

1451962134

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (15 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

BrooksR

Disciplina

339.470951

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics) - China

Economics - China

Aggregate Factor Income Distribution

Consumption

Economics

Education spending

Expenditure

Expenditures, Public

Health care spending

Income

Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics: Consumption

National Government Expenditures and Education

National Government Expenditures and Health

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General

Public finance & taxation

Public Finance

Saving

Wealth

China, People's Republic of



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; II. Consumption and Saving in China: Stylized Facts; A. Consumption is Falling; Figures; 1. Consumption in China: Low and Falling; 2. Urban and Rural Saving Rates; 3. Urban and Rural Income; 4. Indicators of Urban and Rural Consumption and Income; B. More Stylized Facts; 5. Household Income and GDP per Capita; 6. Urban Household Saving Rate by Income Group; III. Reducing Precautionary Saving: A Role For Public Spending?; A. Urban Households; 7. Health and Education Spending; B. Rural Households; C. Robustness Checks; IV. Conclusion; Tables

1. Urban Households: Saving and Government Spending2. Rural Households: Saving and Government Spending; References

Sommario/riassunto

Consumption in China is unusually low and has continued to decline as a share of GDP over the past decade. A key policy question is how to reverse this trend, and rebalance growth away from reliance on exports and investment and toward consumption. This paper investigates whether the sizable increase in government social spending in recent years lowered precautionary saving and increased consumption. The main findings are that spending on health, but not education, had an impact on household behavior. The impact, moreover, is large. A one yuan increase in government health spending is associated with a two yuan increase in urban household consumption.