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Is the U.S. Really Less Corrupt Than China — and How About Russia? (Ep. 481 Update)

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Technology Transfer

If you were to create an index for, let's hay, the largest contributory factors to the chinese economic evolution, where do you think technology transfer might stand right at the bottom? I know that there has been a lot of talk about technology transfer. It is true that in the early stages there were imitation goods. But studies have found that levels of ipur theft in china are not significantly higher than countries at its level of development. Could you argue that access money corruption is, on balance, worth it, in that it provides all sorts of public goods and knock on s that might not otherwise be created? You know, why do i care if the developer who's building a

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