The road ahead

Trying to encapsulate a whole year in prospect is a daunting task indeed. Long-range predictions are almost always flawed, either in substance or in timing. Nevertheless, we have gone some way towards attempting them in this issue – more as an exercise in scenario comparison rather than through any conviction that our crystal ball is, well, crystal clear. Instead of mechanically mapping out our predictions for each aspect of the economy, we have tried – as always – to pick areas that we think are particularly interesting, underappreciated or in flux.

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Other Articles on this Issue

• Guest Column

  China's gold appetite

• Consumer China

  Retail sales: Divergent scenarios

• Funds Data

  Investors favour China over Brazil

• Capital Intensive China

  Overheating, overcapacity to weigh on capital intensive industries in 2010

• The Big Call

  Balancing inflation, overcapacity and asset bubbles. Is that all?

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