Big growth potential still in China

Environment | Bjorn Lomborg

Over the past three decades, China has been at the center of global economic growth and excitement, especially as host of the spectacular Beijing Olympics and Shanghai World Expo. Though China still has a number of issues to deal with (corruption, wealth disparity, State-owned enterprises and pollution, to name a few), it has already shown tremendous capability to address them and evolve its system.

At current growth rates, in about 25 years China will be the world's largest economy but will still have a relatively low GDP per capita, meaning more growth is possible.