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In his new book, Arvind Subramanian presents the following possibilities: What if, contrary to common belief, Chinas economic dominance is a present-day reality rather than a faraway possibility? What if the renminbis takeover of the dollar as the worlds reserve currency is not decades, but mere years, away? And what if the United Statess economic pre-eminence is not, as many economists and policymakers would like to believe, in its own hands, but Chinas to determine?

Subramanians analysis is based on a new index of economic dominance grounded in a historical perspective. His examination makes use of real-world examples, comparing Chinas rise with the past hegemonies of Great Britain and the United States. His attempt to quantify and project economic and currency dominance leads him to the conclusion that Chinas dominance is not only more imminent, but also broader in scope, and much larger in magnitude, than is currently imagined. He explores the profound effect...

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Living in the Shadow of
Chinas Economic Dominance

Arvind Subramanian

PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
Washington, Dc
september 2011

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Arvind Subramanian is senior fellow jointly at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Center for Global Development. He was assistant director in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund. He served at the GATT (198892) during the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations and taught at Harvard Universitys Kennedy School of Government (19992000) and at Johns Hopkins Universitys School for Advanced International Studies (200810). He advises the Indian government in different capacities, including as a member of the Finance Ministers Expert Group on the G-20. His previous books include Indias Turn: Understanding the Economic Transformation (2008) and Efficiency, Equity, and Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading System at the Millennium (2002).

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Subramanian, Arvind.

Eclipse : living in the shadow of Chinas economic dominance / Arvind Subramanian.

p. cm

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Economic developmentChina. 2. Economic developmentUnited States. 3. Economic forecastingChina. Economic forecastingUnited States. International economic relations.

I. Title.

HC427.95.S862 2011

330.951dc23

2011030066

The views expressed in this publication are those of the author. This publication is part of the overall program of the Institute, as endorsed by its Board of Directors, but does not necessarily reflect the views of individual members of the Board or the Advisory Committee.

To

Parul,

Tia, Kartikeya, and Rohan, and

My parents


Contents

Tables

Roles of an international currency
Determinants of reserves, 18992009
Convergence and growth rates over time, 18702008
Growth projections in a convergence scenario, 201030
Economic weight in 2010 and 2030 under the convergence scenario
Relative rankings of countries under the convergence scenario with GDP measured in purchasing power parity dollars
Relative rankings of countries under the convergence scenario with GDP measured in dollars
Share of world trade under the convergence scenario, selected countries, 2010 and 2030
Exports between countries as a share of total world exports, 2008 and 2030
Demographic and economic weight of the populous poor, 15002030
UK, US, Chinese, and European shares of world GDP measured in purchasing power parity dollars, 18702030
UK, US, Chinese, and European shares of world trade, 18702030
UK, US, Chinese, and European shares of world net capital exports, 18702030
UK, US, Chinese, and European GDP per capita, 1870, 1950, and 2030
Trade patterns of economically dominant powers in history
Comparing mercantilist outcomes and instruments of economic powers in history
Twenty-year growth rate of selected economies after reaching 25 percent of US GDP per capita
Long-run growth rates of economies before and after reaching 25 percent of US GDP per capita
Who is in charge? 18702030

Figures

Military expenditures of economically dominant powers, 18702009
Public debt in the United Kingdom, United States, and Germany, 16922010
Economic dominance index from 1870 to 2010 for the top three countries using IMF weights
Economic dominance index from 1870 to 2010 for the top three countries using reserve currency weights
Holdings of reserve currencies, 18992009
Association between reserve currency and GDP, 18992009
Association between reserve currency and trade, 18992009
Association between reserve currency and net creditor status, 18992009
Broadening convergence: Percent of all nonoil, nonsmall developing countries with GDP per capita growth rates above the US growth rate, 19502007
Accelerating convergence: Average of excess of GDP per capita over US growth for all nonoil, nonsmall developing countries with growth above that of the United States, 19502007
Per capita GDP of the populous poor relative to the economic frontier, 15002008
Impact of OECD growth on non-OECD growth
Economic dominance index from 1870 to 2030 for the top three countries under the convergence scenario using IMF weights
Economic dominance index from 1870 to 2030 for the top three countries under the convergence scenario using reserve currency weights
Economic dominance index from 1870 to 2030 treating the European Union as a single political unit under the convergence scenario using IMF weights
Economic dominance index from 1870 to 2030 treating the European Union as a single political unit under the convergence scenario using reserve currency weights
Share of sterling relative to dollars in bond issuance by Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 18701939
History and possible timeline of future reserve currency transition, 18702022
Robustness of economic dominance index to weighting, 2030
Trade-to-GDP projections for the United States, China, and the world, 19702030
Economic dominance in a scenario where America is resurgent, projection to 2030
Economic dominance in a scenario where Chinese growth collapses, projection to 2030
Economic dominance in a scenario where China is resurgent, projection to 2030

Boxes

Goldman Sachs or Citigroup: Whose growth projections are right?
Is China already number one?
Mercantilism and mercantilist confusion in history
Has Chinese mercantilism shortchanged Chinese consumers?
Limits to international monetary cooperation

Preface

The Peterson Institutes research and publications over the years have focused to a considerable extent on China and its economic rise. One of the early books in this regard was Nicholas Lardys China in the World Economy (1994) followed most notably by

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