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Remember, China is the second largest economy in the world. There was a HN article awhile back arguing that China is taxed as an emerging market (low tax), but is dollar size of a mature market. So, two questions:

Is China considered a maturing market?

Is China considered a mature market?

I don’t think just positive growth counts as maturing (even the US still grows), so I think the answers have to be mutually exclusive. Maybe you could argue the rate of growth makes it maturing, but I would love to compare it to the rate of US growth from 1950's-60's (was the considered US maturing or mature during that period?).




It's big but still has a lot of structural problems like any emerging market (e.g. very high unemployment, poor statistical data, only quasi-free markets, very high poverty rates, low per capita gdp, poor judicial system, et al). So it's pretty clearly an "emerging" market, i.e. non-OECD.

There's an unrelated question as to whether OECD and non-OECD countries should be treated differently.


China is the second largest economy, but the country is still quite pooooor... ... _on average_

America is on another hand is a developed country on average, but double digit of population is officially below the official poverty line....

Which one is better you think? In reality, that is Apples to Oranges comparison. China is not a market economy to begin with...




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