Rotorhead
08/23/2007, 17:18:37
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Aren't there frequent and often violent protests against the actions of local cadre's all over China? Don't these number in the thousands per year? Seems like instabily to me, at least the way Professor Gupta's measure of social political instability is measured. Violent protests ranked high in his index number for each nation. China's per capita GDP rises towareds $2000 Real US Dollars and the instability rises. The challenge is to surmount the hump so that incomes rise to the point that people have enough of a stake in the economic success to forgo taking their anger to the street. When I did my study I could not use China's data because the years I chose ( I had to have data on a big group of nations, 85 in my case, for each year of a ten year span. Finding this data without years missing proved unexpectedly difficult so the years I had to use included many where China was still a command economy and her economic date was unreliable, recall one of my profs had been a Chinese government economist back then and warned me off on the data) but from what I know of my research I can clearly see China is behaving as the model I used would predict.
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