EDITORIAL: China’s slowdown means SA must speed up its own reforms
SA must to ensure it can generate its own growth
13 July 2023 - 05:00
In the commodities boom in the early to mid 2000s, and again in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008/09, it was demand from China that buoyed the global economy.
Commodity exporters including SA were particular beneficiaries of China’s rapid expansion. That expansion was led by state-led infrastructure projects which sucked in quantities of steel and other metals and minerals, as well as by rapid growth in China’s exports. ..
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