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Can other EMs match the growth in China's metal demand?

With China’s economy slowing and moving out of its most commodity-intensive phase of development, attention is turning to other developing countries and whether they can replicate China’s consumption growth. In our view, urbanisation and industrialisation in the developing world will support metals demand, but the demand shock created by China’s emergence will not be repeated.

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