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                     Comparison of Macroeconomic Performance
                                of Selected Asian Countries.
               An Econometric Analysis of China Economic Growth
                                                                                           y Implications
                                   and Policy Implications
                                                  
                                                           Hasret Benar Balcioglu
                                                 Cyprus International University, Turkey
                                                                  hbenar@ciu.edu.tr
                                                                    Kivanç Vural
                                                          Texas A&M University, USA
                       Abstract. This paper compares the key macroeconomics indicators for the
                    selected countries: China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea, Rep. and India and
                    also makes an econometric analysis for China for the period 1961-2007. These
                    countries are chosen on the basis of comparability of data and time without
                    measurement errors. This study also investigates six hypotheses considering
                    the impact of several key macroeconomic variables such as domestic saving
                    rate, domestic investment rate, and volatility of savings, volatility of inflation,
                    growth rate of exports and growth rate of real GNP. By using suitable statisti-
                    cal and econometric tests, this paper finds that prevailing performance of China
                    depends on its superior rates of domestic saving and exports. Policies are also
                    suggested from the differentials between the economic performances of China
                    and other chosen Asian countries.
                    Keywords: China; Asian Countries; macroeconomic indicators.
                                                  
                   JEL Codes: E01, E21, E22.
                   REL Codes: 3I, 8E, 8M.
                                                                                           Comparison of Macroeconomic Performance of Selected Asian Countries. An Econometric Analysis of China Economic Growth and Polic
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                         Introduction                                a huge amount of theoretical and emprical
                                                                     literature argued that there is a positive
                         It is known that rapid economic growth      correlation between economic growth and
                    and macroeconomic stability are the main         exports (Feder, 1983, Jeffrey, Warner,
                    objectives of development policy. Poor           1995, Mankiw et al. 1992, Levine et al.,
                    developing countries require more growth         1992).
                    when compared with the developed ones in             The most effective way to increase labor
                    order to reach the development of the social     efficiency and the efficiency in overall is to
                    and physical infrastructure.                     follow and adapt the new technologies
                         Six important factors were suggested by     developed all over the world and to canalize
                    World Bank inquiry made in 1993 to explain       investments to high yielding sectors. In this
               Theoretical and Applied Economics
                    fast growth rate achieved by Asian countries.    context, making high investment on
                    These factors are: 1. High domestic saving       education and training is vital to catch up
                    rate, 2. High domestic investment rate, 3.       and practice new technologies on
                    Provision of competitive market, 4. High         production, transportation and on all other
                    export share in GNP and growth policies          branches of economy. Also provision of
                    encouraging exports, 5. Canalizing               competitive market in which price and
                    investments to high yielding sectors and         quality are determined by market forces is a
                    adapting new technologies in domestic            key factor to obtain an outstanding economic
                    industries, and 6.High investment on             development and growth rate.
                    education and training.                              In this study, six hypotheses will be
                         The factors above are the major             examined below for Chinese economy
                    characteristics of Asian countries (China,       regarding the annual data for the period
                    Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea, Rep. and India)      1961-2007.
                    that achieved high growth rates in the former        H1-Higher domestic saving rate affects
                    recent years.                                    growth rate of real GNP,  H2-Higher
                         Since domestic investment rate is           domestic investment rate affects growth rate
                    determined by domestic savings, a countrys      of real GNP, H3-Higher growth rate of
                    investment level definitely depends on           exports affects growth rate of real GNP, H4-
                    saving rate (Warman, Thirlwall, 1994).           Higher volatility of export growth affects
                    Therefore these two factors move in the          growth rate of real GNP, H5-Higher volatility
                    same direction and affect economic growth        of saving affects growth rate of real GNP,
                    positively. While encouraging the firms          and H6-Higher volatility of inflation rate
                    which produce exportable goods is an             affects growth rate of real GNP.
                    advantage in the sense of giving them                The next divisions of the study are
                    chance to serve a market of unlimited            devoted to the comparison of key
                    consumers, however it introduces a strong        macroeconomic indicators for China and
                    competition of multinational firms and           selected Asian countries, methodological
                    forces domestic firms to be cost efficient       structuration, results, conclusions and
                    and to increase overall efficiency. There is     policy issues.
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                                     Comparison of key macroeconomic                                           Since we dont have the data between
                              indicators for China and selected                                         1961-1982, we may have a limited but still
                              Asian countries                                                           reliable analyze. China has the lowest inflation
                                                                                                        rate between 1997-2007 among chosen five
                                     We will analyze the growth performance                             countries.
                              of China compared to some other Asian
                              developing countries performance regarding
                                                                                                                      The share of exports in GNP                                        y Implications
                              the data of some important economic
                              indicators between 1961 and 2007.                                                 (Average annual percentage change)
                                                                                                                                                                   Table 3
                                                                                                          1961- 1968- 1976- 1983-                     1990-    1997-   2004-
                                   Growth performance of China and chosen                                            1967    1975     1982    1989     1996    2003     2007 
                                                                                                         China  1.85 2.57 8.85 13.42 22 20.14 35 
                                                      Asian countries                                    Malaysia 39.76 40.57 51.14 58.85 83.28  114  123 
                                                                                                         Indonesia 17.23 18.42 27.42  27  26.42 36.85  42 
                                                                                                         South      19.45 20.57 30.57 34.14  28  38.42  46 
                                                                                         Table 1         Korea 
                                                                                                         India  1.92 2.75 9.68 14.02 23.01 22.25 38 
                                1961- 1968-                 1976-   1983-   1990-    1997-   2004-
                                         1967     1975      1982    1989     1996    2003     2007             Source:World Development Indicators
                               China 7.52 9.42 6.85 10.85 10.71 8.57 12.96 
                               Malaysia 5.74 6.71  8.00 5.42 9.57 3.57 4.21  Database 2008.
                               Indonesia 6.21 7.71  7.00 6.28 8.00 1.57 2.62 
                               South      7.12 8.42  7.00 9.42 6.85 4.14 5.23 
                               Korea 
                               India  3.60 5.62  6.71 5.52 7.02 6.41 7.23 
                                     Source:World Development Indicators                                       Table 3 indicates that China has a lower
                              Database 2008.                                                            export share in GNP in overall compared to
                                                                                                        the other given countries.
                                     From Table 1, we can see that China has
                              a prevailing growth performance compared                                                   Investment share of GNP
                              with Malaysia, Indonesia, South Korea and                                                     (In percentage terms)
                              India between 1961-2007.  The interval                                                                                               Table 4
                              between 1976-1982 is the only period in                                      1961- 1968- 1976- 1983-                     1990-   1997-    2004-
                                                                                                                     1967     1975    1982     1989    1996     2003    2007 
                              which China has a lower performance                                         China  23.21 24.37 25.77 22.67 26.58 28.91  35 
                                                                                                          Malaysia 12.36 15.69 20.36 20.36 28.04 21.02 24.36 
                                                                                                          Indonesia 7.56  9.83 12.61 19.05 18.73 12.74 25.23 
                              relative to other selected countries except                                 South      17.56 20.44 29.43 32.39 41.72 34.23 36.21 
                                                                                                          Korea 
                              India.                                                                      India      8.26  9.15 10.25 11,56 10.23 8.56 18.98 
                                                                                                               Source: World Development Indicators
                                                       Inflation Rate
                                                                                                        Database 2008.
                                     (Average annual percentage change in
                                                 consumer price index)                                         Although the investment share of GNP
                                                                                         Table 2        changes in each time period, China still has a
                                1961- 1968- 1976- 1983-                     1990-    1997-   2004-      consistent trend on the investment share of GNP
                                           1967    1975     1982    1989     1996    2003    2007 
                               China - - - 14.66 11.71 0.14 1.20 
                               Malaysia 6.21 5.57 5.48 2.14 3.71 2.42 3.21  since the share of investment in GNP varies
                               Indonesia 19.32  18.57  13.42  8.00  8.71  17.00  18.25                  between 24% and 35% in the given 45 years
                               South      16.42 15.14 16.28 3.71 6.28 3.71 4.21 
                               Korea                                                                    time period. Although it is not put in a table,
                               India  7.85 6.25 6.12 5.76 6.70 5.40 5.77 
                                     Source: World Development Indicators                               the saving rate of China is also consistent and
                              Database 2008.                                                            higher than the concerned countries.
                                                                                                                                                                                         Comparison of Macroeconomic Performance of Selected Asian Countries. An Econometric Analysis of China Economic Growth and Polic
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                          Methodological structuration                  integrated variables can be accepted as co-
                                                                        integrated variables (Enders, 1995). In order
                          Since the annual data of China covering       to find any long run relationship between the
                     the period of 1961-2007 are used, the              variables, cointegration between the
                     Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) and                  variables should be tested after the decision
                     Phillips-Perron (PP) unit root tests are           of the order of integration. In this paper
                     employed in order to test the integration level    Johansen trace test is used as the co-
                     and the possible co-integration among the          integration test. Cheung and Lai (1993)
                     variables (Dickey, Fuller, 1981, Phillips,         points out that the trace test for co-integration
                     Perron, 1988). The PP is an alternative test       is more robust than the maximum eigen
                     to ADF unit root test and it calculates a          value test. It is known that Johansen trace
               Theoretical and Applied Economics
                     residual variance that is robust to auto-          test decides the number of co-integrating
                     correlation. The researcher should always          vectors among variables. At least  one co-
                     ask himself a question while analyzing             integrating vector should be present for a
                     whether it is most appropriate to include          possible co-integration. Emprical studies
                     constant term and trend factor in the unit root    have indicated that the presence of non-
                     process (Enders, 1995). It might be more           stationarity in the time series can cause
                     reasonable to test the existence of a unit root    spurious regression results and the
                     in the series with the most general model.         conclusions obtained from Granger causality
                     The Akaike Information Criteria (AIC) is           can be invalidated. Toda and Phillips (1993)
                     used to choose the number of lags in the           have mentioned about the necessary
                     dependent variable in order to ensure that         methods to deal with Granger causality for
                     the errors are white noise. The power of the       the systems of integrated of one.  The
                     test and the degrees of freedom might be           presence of a co-integrating relation creates
                     reduced with the presence of additional            the basis of the vector error correction
                     estimated parameters. If the researcher fails      specification.  Standard Granger or Sims tests
                     to reject the null hypothesis of a unit root       may show invalid casual information with
                     because of misspecification concerning the         the omission of error correction terms from
                     deterministic part of the regression, Doldado      the tests (Doyle, 2001).
                     et al. (1990) advises to use the most general
                     model to test for a unit root when he is faced         Results
                     with the form of unknown data generating
                     process. It is known that the power of the             Table 5 presents ADF and PP test results
                     test even goes to zero if the intercept or time    for unit root. It shows that all the variables
                     trend is inappropriately omitted (Campbell,        are integrated of order one and the first
                     Perron, 1991). Enders (1995) points out that       differences of lnGNP, lnDomesticSaving,
                     reduced power can misguide the researcher          lnDomesticInvestment, lnExport and
                     leading to wrong decision. If the variables        lnInflation are stationary for this sample in
                     are stationary, a linear combination of            China.
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