Broken Abacus? ; Contents ; Foreword ; Acknowledgments ; Executive Summary ; Introduction: A 10 Trillion Question ; 1. A Framework to Measure a Country's Economy ; Why We Measure Determines How We Measure ; The System of National Accounts ; Gross Domestic Product under SNA ; Is China Concordant with the SNA Framework? ; A Still Evolving System ; 2. A Diagnosis of China's GDP Data ; Time Series Data versus Snapshot Data ; Statistical Terms with Chinese Characteristics ; Institutional Arrangements and Constraints ; 3. A Better Abacus? ; Choice of Measurement Year and Other Basics
Secondary Sector Tertiary Sector ; Primary Sector ; Research and Development Expenditures ; Appendixes ; 4. Conclusions and Implications ; Our Headline Results and China's Official Revision ; Through Domestic Economic Eyes: Revisiting Debates ; Through China's Political Eyes: GDP in a Broader Context ; Through Foreign Eyes: A Resized Rival ; About the Author
Summary
This study reassesses China's nominal economic size from the bottom up. It compares China's practices with international standards and reviews the long-standing arguments about Chinese economic statistics to separate real concerns from distractions
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 8, 2015)
