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China’s Covid policy to be year’s largest economic shock
Beijing’s ‘dynamic zero-Covid’ policy could devastate the domestic economy, but the effects will also be felt globally.
- Publishing date
- 26 April 2022
- Authors
- Alicia García-Herrero
- Publication date
- 26 April 2022
- Keyword
- Covid-19 capital markets
- Country
- China
- Language
- English
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