Sub-Saharan Africa’s environmental future may depend less on how fast its economies grow than on what they become capable of producing. Moving beyond raw commodities toward more knowledge-intensive and technologically sophisticated production could reduce ecological pressure, but the gains are neither automatic nor uniform.
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A narrative has gained traction in recent years that attributes global supply-demand mismatches, trade frictions and growing competitive pressures to expanding industrial supply in emerging markets, particularly what it describes as “China’s industrial overcapacity”. This argument reverses cause and effect and obscures the deeper issue: the structural flaws of an international monetary system built around…
South Africa’s leading economic indicator weakened again, pointing to slower momentum in the economy in the months ahead.
