Fiscal Policy In China

This is the first book that traces the evolution of China's fiscal policy and sums up the experience and lessons of implementing different modes of fiscal policy since the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949. It also looks ahead to the future trends of China's fiscal policy. The book analyzes China's fiscal policy since 1949 with a focus on the period after 1992, elaborates on the functioning mechanism of fiscal policy, and discusses in detail the backgrounds, major measures, and achievements of the moderately tight fiscal policy, proactive fiscal policy, and prudent fiscal policy. It also reviews the experience the Chinese government has accumulated in the process of practicing macro economic control through fiscal instruments, and forecasts the fiscal policy orientation in the years to come. This book is written for policy makers, researchers, entrepreneurs, businessmen, and all who desire a better understanding of China's fiscal policy.Also available in the Gale Virtual Reference Library (eBook).eBook pricing varies according to the size of your institution. Please contact us for details.eBook ISBN-13: 9789814253635Available Now

This volume examines China's government budgetary condition, analyses the new expansionary fiscal policy, and discusses policy options. China's government budgetary revenue has declined dramatically since the start of economic reforms. Facing slower economic growth, China's new fiscal policy is to increase government expenditures by issuing bonds. With a large increase in government spending, it should not be difficult to achieve 7% growth in 1999. The government should conduct serious cost-benefit analyses of every public project in order to prevent scarce funds from being wasted. In the long run, the government should focus on merging the extra-budgetary and off-budgetary revenues into budgetary revenues, instead of allocating more resources to the government sector.

Fiscal policy has always been a primary measure of macroeconomic control. The fiscal revenue and expenditure can influence the operation of the whole economic and social activities by changing the existing GDP distribution pattern, affecting the consumption and investment of enterprises and people, etc. Within the framework of macroeconomic analysis, this book reviews the evolution of China’s fiscal policy, and the main changes China’s economy has experienced since 1990s. To begin with, it makes an empirical research of China’s national debts, including their relationship with macroeconomic regulation and total social demand. Besides, it examines the economic effect mechanism of national debts issuance. Then it focuses on the taxation issues, elucidating the sources of tax revenue growth and the judgments on tax burden. The issue of tax reduction is also covered, especially its complexity in China. Lastly, it provides insights into China’s fiscal tendency, changes of macroeconomic policies, and financial operation in the context of the "New Normal". Scholars and students in economics, finance and Chinese economic studies will be attracted by this book. Also, it will appeal to readers interested in modern Chinese economic history.

In this book Professor Roy Bahl traces the history of the 1994 tax reform in China and evaluates its impact. The 1994 reform was the most systematic and comprehensive restructuring of China's revenue system. It covered the country's tax structure, tax administration, central-provincial fiscal relations, and provincial-local fiscal relations. In a concluding chapter, he examines possibilities for continuing taxation reform in China. Only a scholar with Professor Roy Bahl's extensive experience as adviser to developing countries on tax reform could have written a book with such breadth and depth. This book should be required reading for all students of economic development, comparative fiscal systems, or the Chinese economy.

As an important macroeconomic variant, the fiscal revenue and expenditure can influence the operation of the whole economic and social activities by changing the existing GDP distribution pattern, affecting the consumption and investment of enterprises and people, etc. Thus, fiscal policy has always been a primary instrument of macroeconomic regulation. This book imports fiscal policy into the framework of macroeconomic analysis and through the analysis of the former, it unfolds the major changes of China's macroeconomic operation in the past 20 years. This book begins with China's rejoining the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in the 1990s which enabled China to deepen the reform and join the international market finally. It elaborates on the challenges China's taxation would be confronted with after rejoining the GATT, including the decrease of tax revenue and higher requirements for tax reform. Then this book combs China's fiscal policies under various economic situations chronologically–tax policy under the background of deflation, proactive fiscal policy at the beginning of 21st century, macroeconomic policy options facing a complicated and volatile economy, etc. How to deal with the ¡°new normal¡± of development China's economy has entered is also addressed. This book will appeal to scholars and students of economics and China's economic studies.

We jointly estimate credit and fiscal multipliers in China. We use the tenure of the provincial party secretary, interacted with the type of stimulus used in other provinces, to obtain separate instruments for provincial credit and government expenditure. We estimate a fiscal multiplier of 0.8 and a credit multiplier of 0.2 in 2001-2015. The multipliers have changed over time. The fiscal multiplier has increased from 0.75 in 2001-2008 to 1.4 in 2010-2015. The credit multiplier has declined from 0.17 to zero over the same periods. Our results suggest that reducing credit growth in China is unlikely to disrupt output growth, whereas fiscal policy may be effective in supporting macroeconomic adjustment.

This book aims to discuss the new opportunities and challenges facing China's economy under the background of global economic adjustment and China's corresponding strategy and policy choice. In the past decade, fiscal and monetary policies have played an important and positive role in China's stable economy growth. Faced with the new macro-economy pattern as a result of economic globalization and global economic adjustment, and with the requirements of building a new macro control system, it is necessary to give a new interpretation to the successful coordination between fiscal and monetary policies. In the context of globalization, how should China's reformations and "opening-up" continue forward while guaranteeing economy's sustainable growth, social harmony and political progress? To balance the role of government and the market, and to make the market effective in the world of globalization, will inevitably a big policy challenge that should be treated seriously by both the government and academic institutions. This book looks into China's economic growth and policy mix in the context of global economic adjustment from a historical perspective where the long-term evolution of macro-economy is considered. It provides new theoretical explanations to important issues such as: global economic adjustment and China's policy choices; institutional reform, the degree of openness and factors behind China's economic growth; global economic adjustment and mix pattern of fiscal and monetary policies; and more.

This paper investigates the empirical characteristics of income inequality in China and a panel of BRIC+ countries over the period 1980–2013, with a focus on the redistributive contribution of fiscal policy. Using instrumental variable techniques to deal with potential endogeneity, we find evidence supporting the hypothesis of the existence of a Kuznets curve—an inverted Ushaped relationship between income inequality and economic development—in China and the panel of BRIC+ countries. In the case of China, the empirical results indicate that government spending and taxation have opposing effects on income inequality. While government spending appears to have a worsening impact, taxation improves income distribution. Even though the redistributive effect of fiscal policy in China appears to be stronger than what we identify in the BRIC+ panel, it is not large enough to compensate for the adverse impact of other influential factors.