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481. Is the U.S. Really Less Corrupt Than China?

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What Is the China Model?

Since 19 79, the explosive growth of the economy has lifted more than 800 million chinese people out of poverty. Since 19 forty nine, at least three uan uan ong is a political scientist at the university of michigan and the author of china's gilded age. Some development scholars are reluctant to give china too much credit. endorsing its economic miracle could be seen as an endorsement of authoritarianism as a political system. So that is what makes explaining china so complicated.

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