Finance & economics | Asian budget finances
Poles apart
China has plenty more room than India to stimulate growth
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THE Chinese invented the abacus; India invented the binary and the decimal systems. So both nations are deft at playing with numbers. All the more reason to look carefully at their governments' finances (see chart).
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline "Poles apart"
From the February 16th 2008 edition
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