Macrophage87 t1_ir9v36f wrote on October 6, 2022 at 12:37 PM

Reply to comment by st6374 in [OC] China and India's military spending mirrors each other by Round-Bodybuilder187

Also, China is notable for 'cooking the books' when it comes to GDP. A lot of countries do, for instance, Italy won an Ig-Nobel prize in economics for including its black market in GDP statistics to boost the numbers.

https://improbable.com/2014/10/15/ig-nobel-winner-triumphs-italy-lifts-out-of-recession-thanks-to-hookers-drugs/

DaBIGmeow888 t1_ira2w9z wrote on October 6, 2022 at 1:40 PM

Do you have a peer-reviewed publication that shows China's GDP is cooked?

Macrophage87 t1_ira4bhf wrote on October 6, 2022 at 1:51 PM

Here's one:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165410118300399

And a link to the press release from Yale, for a more laymen-friendly version:
https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/study-suggests-that-local-chinese-officials-manipulate-gdp

Macrophage87 t1_ira4ot0 wrote on October 6, 2022 at 1:54 PM

Here's more if you want, both evidence of manipulation, and the resulting effects:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0278425422000126
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0929119921001814