| BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : DECEMBER 13, 1999 ISSUE | ||||||||
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| NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
Democracies Pay Higher Wages Average annual wages as a share of productivity in manufacturing, 1990-94 DEMOCRACIES BANGLADESH 39% INDIA 38 KOREA 26 AUTOCRACIES CHINA 17% INDONESIA* 20 MEXICO** 19 As ranked by New York-based Freedom House *During Suharto regime **Listed by Freedom House as partly free DATA: DANI RODRIK, HARVARD UNIVERSITY _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ |
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