Results of a private survey on Monday showed China’s manufacturing activity expanded for the month of July — the fastest pace in nearly a decade, according to records.
The private survey showed that policy stimulus is helping the world’s second-largest economy in its recovery from the pandemic, said Julian Evans-Pritchard, senior China economist at Capital Economics, a consultancy. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/03/china-economy-caixin-markit-pmi-for-july-2020.html
Results of a private survey on Monday showed China’s manufacturing activity expanded for the month of July — the fastest pace in nearly a decade, according to records.
The private survey showed that policy stimulus is helping the world’s second-largest economy in its recovery from the pandemic, said Julian Evans-Pritchard, senior China economist at Capital Economics, a consultancy. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/03/china-economy-caixin-markit-pmi-for-july-2020.html
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“The Indian economy contracted by 23.9 percent in the second quarter, the most drastic fall in decades, as lockdown restrictions meant to contain the spread of the coronavirus wiped out jobs and businesses.
India’s decline was the worst among the world’s top economies, with the U.S. economy shrinking 9.5 percent in the same quarter and Japan’s 7.6 percent.
Economists say once the impact on the country’s vast “informal” work force is taken into account, the damage might be even worse.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/world/asia/india-economy-gdp.html
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