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THE STREET VIEW The Street View March 2019

Street View is a new name for this publication reflecting the ability of the Macro Forum network to look behind the headlines to deliver local insights and perspectives from colleagues on the ground. This edition of Street View - is focussed on the presumption that more of everything-people, capital, debt does not represent a sustainable basis for growth.

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Deeper, stronger, faster

March 13, 2019 Dr Simon Ogus, CEO of DSG Asia, contributes a guest article looking at the changing growth model of the largest EM economy.

China: Changing nature of growth. Historic growth model and how it is evolving in the future.

March 13, 2019 More than a decade has passed since Wen Jiabao, said that the Chinese economy was “unbalanced, uncoordinated, unstable, and unsustainable.”

China: Demographics, Digitisation, Data and Demand

March 13, 2019 Trade tensions, a rising debt burden, misallocation of capital and environmental shortcomings are familiar headline grabber.

India: The reform score card

March 13, 2019 India has progressed in fits and starts towards being a market-led economy, albeit one with a strong role for public ownership.

Africa: Delivering on the demographic dividend

March 13, 2019 There are more people in the world than ever before, but population growth is far from even and Africa is going to add another billion.

Nigeria: So many people, too little reform

March 13, 2019 Nigeria will be the third most populous country in the world by 2050 with a population of 410m, the World Bank estimates.

Street view: Powering Africa

March 13, 2019 Access is a necessary condition for energy demand growth. Without this growth African nations will fail to meet development goals.