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Hong Kong's Faulty Economic Data

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Mar 08, 2010
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Hong Kong government data continues to give what is almost certainly an exaggerated view of the economy's growth. For almost every year since 1997 the GDP deflator, which measures the ratio of the current-year price of goods against their price in a base year, has varied widely, not only with the trend in consumer prices but with the broader domestic de…

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