In much of the world, interest rates are likely to settle at higher levels than was the case prior to the pandemic. But China is a key exception, with its shrinking population, slowing productivity gains, low inflation rate and increasingly-heavy debt burden putting it on a path toward ultra-low rates. We think the country’s short-term real equilibrium interest rate will fall from 1.4% currently to zero by 2030.
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