By John Richardson CHINA’s anti-corruption campaign is now more than two years old and continues to generate a great deal of criticism. These criticisms include claims that it sometimes targets the wrong individuals – and that the campaign might end up being all about China’s senior leadership cementing their positions, rather than tackling the underlying […]
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China GDP Slowdown No Surprise
By John Richardson ALL but two analysts out of a Bloomberg survey of 41 over-estimated China’s first-quarter GDP growth. Monday’s announcement of the 7.7% increase – pushing China in to the longest streak of expansion below 8% for 20 years – understandably, therefore, led to numerous downgrades in full-year 2013 growth forecasts. For example: *Louis […]
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