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The Case Of China 's Credit Policy

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INTRODUCTION

There has always been a persistent hustle between reality and its abstractions. Seldom do we find that a model aimed at capturing a portion of reality has provided both accurate and consistent results. Such a friction between reality and a proposed model of it can also be found in the case of China’s credit policy. The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) fixed the exchange rate of the yuan to the US dollar in the middle of the 1990s. In spite of the currency turmoil and depreciation during the Asian crisis, the Yuan Renminbi (RMB) was held at 8.28 to a dollar although there was a 50% depreciation. After 2005 the RMB exchange rate was only allowed to appreciate on tiptoes at 5% a year to the dollar before the Great Financial Crisis …show more content…

The foreign reserved of China is valued at $3.8 billion that is highly attributable to the foreign exchange policy adopted by People’s Bank of China. There is a need for a different theory to provide reasonable explanation for the persistence of Chinese monetary regime despite the fact that there is a negative correlation between the growth of foreign exchange reserves and money supply.

‘Compensation Theory’ proposed by Lavoie and Wang can chip in as a better substitution for the problem at hand. According to this view, a central bank is able to offset a rise in the money supply by different operations on its balance sheet other than inverted open market operations. Thus a direct consequence of this can be inability to increase money supply through acquisition of net foreign assets which will therefore leave the price level unaltered. This theory is of the view that central bank’s compensation of net foreign assets growth is disjoint from the changes in the price level. These changes are more dependent on credit than on money.

CREDIT POLICY IN CHINA

All the financial resources being allocated according to a budget may be regarded as an extreme form of policy lending under the Chinese planning system. Budgetary funds were to be utilized to finance Chinese investment and production. Thus, policy lending was one of the main instruments of financing economic growth and development. The importance of policy directed lending for China 's overall economic growth and

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