Gross domestic plummet: China’s historic contraction
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The Economist
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🗓️ 17 April 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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The covid-19 pandemic has caused the country’s first GDP dip in more than four decades. What struggles still lie ahead for the world’s second-largest economy? Decisive action to help the homeless amid the crisis offers hope for what comes after it. And a look back at the life of Joseph Lowery, a firebrand preacher and rhyming civil-rights activist.
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