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Why Africa won’t be the next EM powerhouse

African economies entered a cyclical upturn last year, and we think that they will outperform consensus expectations in 2018 and 2019. But their long-term outlook is less rosy than that of many analysts. Talk of the region as the “next China” are well wide of the mark.

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