Non-food inflation has continued to rise but we remain sanguine about the outlook, not least because much of the latest increase seems to be due to the introduction of new index weights. High oil...

Much of the talk at the National People’s Congress is of the need to boost domestic demand. But with the finance ministry projecting an even smaller budget deficit for 2011 than 2010, the government’s...

The inclusion of a lower growth target in the new Five-Year Plan is a simple acknowledgement that growth will slow as China’s pool of surplus rural workers dries up. The call for better quality growth...

Hong Kong’s economy is growing at a healthy pace but residential property looks increasingly overvalued and today’s budget underlines that the government has few effective means to help.