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I’ve talked before about the challenge facing the Chinese economy.
Here’s two charts from that detail the slow down and the impact its having out of the main coastal areas.
More and more of the world is inextricably linked into China’s success as shown by Export trade as a proportion of world GDP.
and the overall source of China’s imports
Which shows that more than half of Chinese exports originate in Asia.… Read more
After 34 years of booming economic growth averaging over 9% per year (the longest sustained period of rapid economic growth in human history), China’s credit-fueled, investment-driven growth model is exhausted and increasingly unstable. Chinese economic growth slowed to the lowest level since 1999 last year, expanding 7.7%.
Policymakers have recognized the need to re-balance economic growth and are now slowly transitioning away from a credit and export driven economy to one driven by consumer growth.… Read more
There are times when a quick round up of a topic with some guidance on further reading is useful.
I read ‘Counterparties’ created by Felix Salmon of Reuters, and in future will exert parts of this for you.
Here’s a good simple round up of the current state of the African Economy- not something you read about everyday, but useful nonetheless.… Read more