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Shrinking workforce not a major growth risk

Contrary to some headlines this week, the ongoing decline in China’s working age population does not pose a major threat to China’s medium-term growth prospects. What matters is what happens to worker productivity, which will largely be determined by the success or failure of economic reform.

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