OECD Economic Outlook, Volume 2016 Issue 1
The OECD Economic Outlook is the OECD's twice-yearly analysis of the major economic trends and prospects for the next two years. The Outlook puts forward a consistent set of projections for output, employment, prices, fiscal and current account balances.
Coverage is provided for all OECD member countries as well as for selected non-member countries. This issue includes a general assessment, a special chapter on promoting productivity and equality, a chapter summarising developments and providing projections for each individual country and a statistical annex.
China
Economic growth is set to edge down further, from 6.5% in 2016 to 6.2% by 2017. Large-scale infrastructure spending will only partly make up for slowing business investment as overcapacity is being worked off in several industries. Real estate investment is bottoming out, but housing inventories remain sizeable. Consumption is projected to stay buoyant. The reduction in excess capacity will ease the downward pressure on producer prices, but consumer price inflation will remain low.