LONG VIEW: Data Leak, Demographics, and Consumption
How China overcounted its population and the myth of consumption-led growth
The Setup:
The elements of today’s post — China’s 2020 census overcounting, the Shanghai data leak, and the consumption-led growth story — have been publicly available for a while now. We thought we’d tie the threads together and make their implications more explicit.
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