For the last seven years in my travels across the African continent, I try to pay attention and listen to what things are troubling some African businesses and traders in retail and exports.
Asia's biggest stock exchange closed higher across a broad range of sectors, including banking, retail and export-related issues.
Would the evolution of sector variables, such as retail prices, export volumes, quantity produced, and per capita consumption, have been different without government intervention?
Last week, China released dismal figures on retail sales and exports in July.
Economists in Dublin, however, have started to revise their forecasts because of improvements in retail sales and exports.
That's not a drastic revision, but it reflects a number of recent economic statistics, such as retail sales and exports, having come in weaker than expected.
The weaker that China's exports, retail sales and other indicators become, the more likely that China will have to rely again this year on government spending and lending to reach 8 percent, he said.
Its manufacturing sector has been picking up pace, while exports, retail sales and fixed asset investment all rose in August.
Transport, storage, wholesaling, and retailing requirements for exports and imports are concentrated in Kolkata and Haora.
Construction companies, retail stores, restaurants, export-import businesses and communications enterprises all shed jobs, more than offsetting modest growth in the financial sector.
