Summers: US & Global Economic Recovery “Underway” Harvard Professor Also Expects China Growth Instability

Hong Kong, Nov 6, 2012 – (ACN Newswire) – Recovery is “underway” in the United States and the rest of the world, but the Chinese mainland’s economy could face difficulties over its investment-based model, according to Harvard University economist Lawrence Summers.

“I think there’s a global-economy recovery underway, and I think the US economy has been in a recovery phase and continues to be in a recovery phase. The question really is what the pace of that recovery is, and will that recovery be sufficient to grow the economies? I think the answer to that question is ‘yes,'” said Dr Summers, a former US Treasury Secretary and current Charles W Eliot University Professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

His 23 October interview with the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) also voiced “considerable concerns that there will be some kind of discontinuity at some point in the next few years in China,” and that US worries about the mainland’s currency are “valid” and illustrate why renminbi appreciation would be welcomed.

Watch the HKTDC video here http://youtu.be/t5HJvyft_JU

Here is a full transcript of Dr Summers’ HKTDC interview.
http://www.acnnewswire.com/clientreports/574/1106.pdf

Dr Summers will be a keynote speaker at the sixth Asian Financial Forum (AFF), organised by the Hong Kong SAR Government and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC). The next AFF will take place in Hong Kong, 14-15 January 2013.

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