China’s boom leaves many behind (IHT)

March 25, 2004

“China’s economic miracle has had an ironic side effect. The communist government has created an economic powerhouse with a more entrenched class system than any capitalist country could imagine.

Although China has had the world’s fastest growing economy for 25 years, its new wealth is spreading unevenly. The once narrow gap between rich and poor has become one of the widest in the world in only one generation.”

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