Resignations and a Looming Crisis in China

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Miranda Carr
April 22, 2022
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A spate of auditor resignations for real estate developers in China have prompted whispers of economic contagion. The real estate market in China is really important and if it were to collapse, then the world might go with it. We discuss what ESG has to do with the looming, potential crisis, and how the problems we are already seeing in the market could be fixed with better company governance processes.
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Miranda Carr
Miranda Carr
Executive Director, MSCI Research
Yan Zhou, ESG Researcher, MSCI
Sophia Cheng, ESG Researcher, MSCI

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